An overview is presented of the current state‐of‐the‐art in silicon nanophotonic ring
resonators. Basic theory of ring resonators is discussed, and applied to the peculiarities of …

The use of infrared lasers to power optical-scale lithographically fabricated particle
accelerators is a developing area of research that has garnered increasing interest in recent …

The unique properties of light underpin the visions of photonic quantum technologies,
optical interconnects and a wide range of novel sensors, but a key limiting factor today is …

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 widely acknowledged as a game-changing technology, driven by the
needs of datacom and telecom. Silicon photonics builds on highly capital-intensive …

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 …

Photonic integrated circuits (PICs) based on lithographically patterned waveguides provide
a scalable approach for manipulating photonic bits, enabling seminal demonstrations of a …

Periodicity in materials yields interesting and useful phenomena. Applied to the propagation
of light, periodicity gives rise to photonic crystals, which can be precisely engineered for …

The pace of the development of silicon photonics has quickened since 2004 due to
investment by industry and government. Commercial state-of-the-art CMOS silicon-on …

The arrival of the big data era has driven the rapid development of high-speed optical
signaling and processing, ranging from long-haul optical communication links to short-reach …