Over the last 20 years, silicon photonics has revolutionized the field of integrated optics,
providing a novel and powerful platform to build mass-producible optical circuits. One of the …

Silicon photonic devices used in the photonics industry over the past three decades have
helped in realizing large-scale photonic integrated circuits. Silicon nitride (Si 3 N 4) is …

In the evolution of optical networks, spectral efficiency (SE) enhancement has been the most
cost-efficient and thus the main driver for capacity increase for decades. As a result, the …

In this paper, we present a brief history of silicon photonics from the early research papers in
the late 1980s and early 1990s, to the potentially revolutionary technology that exists today …

Advances in control techniques for vibrational quantum states in molecules present new
challenges for modelling such systems, which could be amenable to quantum simulation …

Multimode devices and components have attracted considerable attention in the last years,
and different research topics and themes have emerged very recently. The multimodality can …

The ability to process optical signals without passing into the electrical domain has always
attracted the attention of the research community. Processing photons by photons unfolds …

In its 60 years of existence, the field of nonlinear optics has gained momentum especially
over the past two decades thanks to major breakthroughs in material science and …

Four‐wave mixing (FWM) is a versatile optical nonlinear parametric process that enables a
plethora of signal processing functionalities in optical communication. Realization of efficient …

In this review we present some of the recent advances in the field of silicon nitride photonic
integrated circuits. The review focuses on the material deposition techniques currently …