The emergence of silicon photonics over the past two decades has established silicon as a
preferred substrate platform for photonic integration. While most silicon-based photonic …

There is currently much activity toward the integration of mid-infrared semiconductor lasers
on Si substrates for developing a variety of smart, compact, sensors based on Si-photonics …

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 …

Silicon (Si) photonics has recently emerged as a key enabling technology in many
application fields thanks to the mature Si process technology, the large silicon wafer size …

The availability of silicon photonic integrated circuits (ICs) in the 2–4 μm wavelength range
enables miniature optical sensors for trace gas and bio-molecule detection. In this paper, we …

The 2-μm-waveband has been recognized as a potential telecommunication window for
next-generation low-loss, low-latency optical communication. Thermo-optic (TO) modulators …

Heterogeneously integrating III-V materials on silicon photonic integrated circuits has
emerged as a promising approach to make advanced laser sources for optical …

A silicon-based on-chip add-drop optical filter is realized for the wavelength-band of 2 μm by
integrating a multimode waveguide grating (MWG) and a pair of two-channel mode (de) …

Photonic integrated circuits fabricated using a Si3N4 waveguide platform exhibit low losses
in a wide wavelength region extending from visible to beyond 2 µm. This feature is exploited …

The mid-infrared (MIR, 2–20 μm) waveband is of great interest for integrated photonics in
many applications such as on-chip spectroscopic chemical sensing, and optical …