Waveguide sub‐wavelength structures: a review of principles and applications

R Halir, PJ Bock, P Cheben… - Laser & Photonics …, 2015 - Wiley Online Library
Periodic structures with a sub‐wavelength pitch have been known since Hertz conducted his
first experiments on the polarization of electromagnetic waves. While the use of these …

Subwavelength silicon photonics for on-chip mode-manipulation

C Li, M Zhang, H Xu, Y Tan, Y Shi, D Dai - PhotoniX, 2021 - Springer
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 …

Blazed subwavelength grating coupler

R Guo, S Zhang, H Gao, G Senthil Murugan… - Photonics …, 2023 - opg.optica.org
Short-wavelength mid-infrared (2–2.5 μm wave band) silicon photonics has been a growing
area to boost the applications of integrated optoelectronics in free-space optical …

Focusing sub-wavelength grating couplers with low back reflections for rapid prototyping of silicon photonic circuits

Y Wang, X Wang, J Flueckiger, H Yun, W Shi… - Optics express, 2014 - opg.optica.org
We demonstrate fully-etched fiber-waveguide grating couplers with sub-wavelength gratings
showing high coupling efficiency as well as low back reflections for both transverse electric …

On-chip optical gas sensors based on group-IV materials

J Wu, G Yue, W Chen, Z Xing, J Wang, WR Wong… - ACS …, 2020 - ACS Publications
Compact and smart optical gas sensors have attracted significant attention over the past few
decades. Among the materials used for developing such gas sensors, group-IV materials …

Silicon photonic devices realized on refractive index engineered subwavelength grating waveguides-A review

NL Kazanskiy, MA Butt, SN Khonina - Optics & Laser Technology, 2021 - Elsevier
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 …

Subwavelength grating double slot waveguide racetrack ring resonator for refractive index sensing application

NL Kazanskiy, SN Khonina, MA Butt - Sensors, 2020 - mdpi.com
In this paper, a racetrack ring resonator design based on a subwavelength grating double
slot waveguide is presented. The proposed waveguide scheme is capable of confining the …

Perfectly vertical surface grating couplers using subwavelength engineering for increased feature sizes

M Kamandar Dezfouli, Y Grinberg, D Melati… - Optics Letters, 2020 - opg.optica.org
We present perfectly vertical grating couplers for the 220 nm silicon-on-insulator platform
incorporating subwavelength metamaterials to increase the minimum feature sizes and …

Efficient perfectly vertical grating coupler for multi-core fibers fabricated with 193 nm DUV lithography

Y Tong, W Zhou, HK Tsang - Optics Letters, 2018 - opg.optica.org
We propose a novel high-efficiency, low-reflection, and fabrication-tolerant perfectly vertical
grating coupler (PVGC) with a minimum feature size> 200 nm to allow for fabrication using …

Enhanced four-wave mixing with MoS2 on a silicon waveguide

Y Zhang, L Tao, D Yi, JB Xu, HK Tsang - Journal of Optics, 2020 - iopscience.iop.org
MoS 2 is a layered quasi-2D material that can enhance effective third-order optical
nonlinearity of waveguides. In this paper, we measured the optical loss of MoS 2 on silicon …