Prospects and applications of on-chip lasers

Z Zhou, X Ou, Y Fang, E Alkhazraji, R Xu, Y Wan… - Elight, 2023 - Springer
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 …

A review and perspective on optical phased array for automotive LiDAR

CP Hsu, B Li, B Solano-Rivas, AR Gohil… - IEEE Journal of …, 2020 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
This paper aims to review the state of the art of Light Detection and Ranging (LiDAR)
sensors for automotive applications, and particularly for automated vehicles, focusing on …

Long-range LiDAR and free-space data communication with high-performance optical phased arrays

CV Poulton, MJ Byrd, P Russo… - IEEE Journal of …, 2019 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
We present high-performance integrated optical phased arrays along with first-of-their-kind
light detection and ranging (LiDAR) and free-space data communication demonstrators …

Ultrafast optical ranging using microresonator soliton frequency combs

P Trocha, M Karpov, D Ganin, MHP Pfeiffer, A Kordts… - Science, 2018 - science.org
Light detection and ranging is widely used in science and industry. Over the past decade,
optical frequency combs were shown to offer advantages in optical ranging, enabling fast …

Coherent solid-state LIDAR with silicon photonic optical phased arrays

CV Poulton, A Yaacobi, DB Cole, MJ Byrd, M Raval… - Optics letters, 2017 - opg.optica.org
We present, to the best of our knowledge, the first demonstration of coherent solid-state light
detection and ranging (LIDAR) using optical phased arrays in a silicon photonics platform …

Large-scale optical phased array using a low-power multi-pass silicon photonic platform

SA Miller, YC Chang, CT Phare, MC Shin, M Zadka… - Optica, 2020 - opg.optica.org
Optical phased arrays are a promising beam-steering technology for ultra-small solid-state
lidar and free-space communication systems. Long-range, high-performance arrays require …

High-resolution aliasing-free optical beam steering

DN Hutchison, J Sun, JK Doylend, R Kumar, J Heck… - Optica, 2016 - opg.optica.org
Many applications, including laser (LIDAR) mapping, free-space optical communications,
and spatially resolved optical sensors, demand compact, robust solutions to steering an …

[HTML][HTML] Tutorial on narrow linewidth tunable semiconductor lasers using Si/III-V heterogeneous integration

MA Tran, D Huang, JE Bowers - APL photonics, 2019 - pubs.aip.org
Narrow linewidth lasers have many applications, such as higher order coherent
communications, optical sensing, and metrology. While semiconductor lasers are typically …

A monolithically integrated large-scale optical phased array in silicon-on-insulator CMOS

SW Chung, H Abediasl… - IEEE Journal of Solid-State …, 2017 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
A large-scale monolithic silicon nanophotonic phased array on a chip creates and
dynamically steers a high-resolution optical beam in free space, enabling emerging …

Highly integrated optical phased arrays: photonic integrated circuits for optical beam shaping and beam steering

MJR Heck - Nanophotonics, 2017 - degruyter.com
Technologies for efficient generation and fast scanning of narrow free-space laser beams
find major applications in three-dimensional (3D) imaging and mapping, like Lidar for …