On-Chip Lasers for Silicon Photonics
This review paper highlights the advancements made in the field of integrated laser sources on the silicon photonics platform. These on-chip lasers are classified according to their gain media, including V semiconductors, III–V …
Subwavelength silicon photonics for on-chip mode …
On-chip mode-manipulation is one of the most important physical fundamentals for many photonic integrated devices and circuits. In the past years, great progresses have been achieved on subwavelength silicon …
A programmable topological photonic chip | Nature Materials
The authors demonstrate a programmable topological photonic chip with large-scale integration of silicon photonic nanocircuits and microresonators that can be rapidly reprogrammed to implement ...
Silicon photonics-based high-energy passively Q -switched laser
We demonstrate high on-chip output pulse energies of >150 nJ and 250 ns pulse duration in a single transverse fundamental mode in the retina-safe spectral region (1.9 µm), …
Edge Couplers in Silicon Photonic Integrated Circuits: A Review
Silicon photonics has drawn increasing attention in the past few decades and is a promising key technology for future daily applications due to its various merits including ultra-low cost, high integration density owing to the high refractive index of silicon, and compatibility with current semiconductor fabrication process. Optical interconnects is an important issue in silicon …
Silicon photonic microresonator-based high-resolution line-by-line ...
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Photoic crystal nanobeam cavity devices for on-chip integrated silicon ...
Particularly, compared with other on-chip resonators (e.g. microrings, 2D photonic crystal cavities) silicon-on-insulator (SOI)-based photonic crystal nanobeam cavity (PCNC) has emerged as a promising platform for on-chip integration, due to their attractive properties of ultra-high Q/V, ultra-compact footprints and convenient integration with silicon bus-waveguides. In …
Roadmapping the next generation of silicon photonics
The central quest for the next decade in shrinking photonic chips and thus increasing density is to find the elusive ''ideal'' modulator in silicon photonics—small in length (L), requiring a ...
Silicon Photonics Circuit Design: Methods, Tools and Challenges
1 Introduction. Silicon photonics is the technology to integrate a large number of optical functions on a chip using the fabrication technology of the CMOS industry, thereby enabling low cost, large volume, manufacturing. 1-3 The field has rapidly evolved from a ''scientific hot topic'' to an industrially viable platform, largely driven by telecom and datacom applications, …
Lab-on-Chip Silicon Photonic Sensor | SpringerLink
The variable N is the number of the de-multiplexer output channels, and (varDelta lambda ) is the required sensor ring spectral shift needed to move the Vernier resonance wavelength by one channel. In addition, (delta lambda ) is a fractional spectral shift such that ((0<delta lambda <varDelta lambda )).Referring to (Eq. 6.1), if an analyte is …
A Bi-CMOS electronic photonic integrated circuit …
In silicon-on-insulator photonics, on-chip germanium p-i-n photodiodes have been integrated with waveguides and interfaced with discrete amplifier electronics for quantum random number generation and coherent …
Next-generation silicon photonics: introduction
In the past decade, silicon photonics has been making tremendous progress in terms of device functionality and performances as well as circuit integration for many practical applications ranging from communication, sensing, and information processing. This special issue, including four review articles and nine research articles, aims to provide a comprehensive overview of this …
Unified laser stabilization and isolation on a silicon chip
Silicon nitride thin films (310 nm) were deposited on silicon dioxide/silicon wafers through low-pressure chemical vapour deposition. The devices were then patterned using a ZEP520A resist and e ...
Chip-to-chip quantum teleportation and multi-photon entanglement in silicon
Here, we report the demonstration of chip-to-chip quantum teleportation and genuine multipartite entanglement, the core functionalities in quantum technologies, on silicon-photonic circuitry.
Intel® Silicon Photonics
2 · Today, the Intel Silicon Photonics Product Division is the volume market leader in Silicon Photonics, with over 8 million PICs and over 32 million on-chip integrated lasers shipped from our high-volume fabs since 2016, embedded in pluggable transceiver modules deployed by major hyperscale cloud service providers.
SiPh Breakthrough: Silicon Photonics Chips Ready to Launch
In the future, adopting "single-chip silicon photonics" can truly achieve the goals of compactness and energy efficiency. This technology can provide high-speed, energy-efficient integrated solutions, fundamentally transforming industries such as data centers, artificial intelligence, telecommunications, sensing and imaging, and biomedical ...
Modular architecture for fully non-blocking silicon …
Ring-shaped silicon photonic switches offer compact geometries at the micron-scale for superior on-chip integration and scalability. The resonant nature of these devices allows for excellent noise ...
Silicon-photonics-enabled chip-based 3D printer
We propose and demonstrate the first chip-based 3D printer, consisting of a silicon-photonics chip that emits non-mechanically-reconfigurable beams into photocurable resin, enabling future compact ...
Programmable four-photon graph states on a silicon chip
Experiment overview. A schematic of the silicon-on-insulator chip-scale device is shown, comprising: four telecommunications-band photon-pair sources, producing four photons in superposition; a ...
Prospects and applications of on-chip lasers
Integrated silicon photonics has sparked a significant ramp-up of investment in both academia and industry as a scalable, power-efficient, and eco-friendly solution. At the heart of this platform is the light source, which in itself, has been the focus of research and development extensively. This paper sheds light and conveys our perspective on the current state-of-the-art …
Thirty Years in Silicon Photonics: A Personal View
Therefore, alternative approaches are now dominating the research and development of a silicon photonic laser, where either quantum dots and other materials are cointegrated in the silicon chip [70–73], or hereogeneous integration and chip bonding of III-V semiconductors are used to make a hybrid III-V laser on silicon [74, 75, 75, 76], or, finally, …
High-speed and energy-efficient non-volatile silicon photonic …
Recently, interest in programmable photonics integrated circuits has grown as a potential hardware framework for deep neural networks, quantum computing, and field programmable arrays (FPGAs).
Silicon photonics
Another application of silicon photonics is in signal routers for optical communication nstruction can be greatly simplified by fabricating the optical and electronic parts on the same chip, rather than having them spread across multiple components. [47] A wider aim is all-optical signal processing, whereby tasks which are conventionally performed by manipulating signals in …
Beam Steering Technology of Optical Phased Array …
With the development of silicon-based optoelectronics in recent years, such as the development of CMOS compatible germanium–silicon or silicon defect photodetectors, there is an opportunity to integrate OPA with low …
Towards large-scale programmable silicon photonic chip for …
Optical signal processing has been playing a crucial part as powerful engine for various information systems in the practical applications. In particular, achieving large-scale programmable chips for signal processing are highly desirable for high flexibility, low cost and powerful processing. Silicon photonics, which has been developed successfully in the past …
Hybrid silicon photonics flip-chip laser integration with vertical self ...
We present a flip-chip integration process in which the vertical alignment is guaranteed by a mechanical contact between pedestals defined in a recess etched into a silicon photonics chip …
Recent progress in quantum photonic chips for quantum ...
Such devices have been demonstrated in a variety of integrated platforms, e.g., an ultraviolet-written silica-on-silicon photonic chip for quantum teleportation with thermo-optic phase shifters 90 ...
China claims silicon photonics breakthrough to overcome chip …
Global silicon photonics chip market expected to hit $7.86 billion by 2030. Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company (TSMC), the world''s leading contract chip maker, is actively pursuing ...