The growing maturity of nanofabrication has ushered massive sophisticated optical
structures available on a photonic chip. The integration of subwavelength-structured …

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 …

Over the last 20 years, silicon photonics has revolutionized the field of integrated optics,
providing a novel and powerful platform to build mass-producible optical circuits. One of the …

Silicon photonics is an enabling technology that provides integrated photonic devices and
systems with low-cost mass manufacturing capability. It has attracted increasing attention in …

Future wireless communication networks will need to handle data rates of tens or even
hundreds of Gbit s− 1 per link, requiring carrier frequencies in the unallocated THz …

In this paper, we present a brief history of silicon photonics from the early research papers in
the late 1980s and early 1990s, to the potentially revolutionary technology that exists today …

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

Dedicated multi-project wafer (MPW) runs for photonic integrated circuits (PICs) from Si
foundries mean that researchers and small-to-medium enterprises (SMEs) can now afford to …

Two-dimensional transition-metal dichalcogenides (TMDCs) with intrinsically broken crystal
inversion symmetry and large second-order nonlinear responses have shown great promise …

Efficient light energy transfer between optical waveguides has been a critical issue in
various areas of photonics and optoelectronics. Especially, the light coupling between …