In the late nineteenth century, Heinrich Hertz demonstrated that the electromagnetic
properties of materials are intimately related to their structure at the subwavelength scale by …

Thanks to advanced semiconductor microfabrication technology, chip-scale integration and
miniaturization of lab-on-a-chip components, silicon-based optical biosensors have made …

As miniaturized solutions, mid-infrared (MIR) waveguide sensors are promising for label-free
compositional detection of mixtures leveraging plentiful absorption fingerprints. However …

Silicon photonics is playing a key role in areas as diverse as high-speed optical
communications, neural networks, supercomputing, quantum photonics, and sensing, which …

Segmenting silicon waveguides at the subwavelength scale produce an equivalent
homogenous material. The geometry of the waveguide segments provides precise control …

While silicon photonic resonant cavities have been widely investigated for biosensing
applications, enhancing their sensitivity and detection limit continues to be an area of active …

Silicon has been the material of choice of the photonics industry over the last decade due to
its easy integration with silicon electronics, high index contrast, small footprint, and low cost …

Nanophotonic beamsplitters are fundamental building blocks in integrated optics, with
applications ranging from high speed telecom receivers to biological sensors and quantum …

It is a remarkable and straightforward approach to customize the dispersion and nonlinear
properties of the photonic devices without varying the composition of the material by …

The unique ability of slot and sub-wavelength grating (SWG) waveguides to confine light
outside of the waveguide core material has attracted significant interest in their application to …