Radical new devices that combine the size of electronics and the speed of photonics take a big stride towards mass-production.
Guest Editor Zhiping Zhou introduces the content of this special supplement on silicon photonics.
“It’s a pleasure for me to work in a field with such bright vistas”. The pioneer of silicon photonics gives his personal viewpoint of the past, present and future of silicon photonics.
The control of the coupling between two 1D photonic crystal/photonic wire microcavity structures fabricated in silicon has been investigated by researchers at the University of Glasgow.
DWDM frequency doubling has been demonstrated using an optical millimetre-wave generator consisting of a phase modulator and a coupled microring resonator fabricated on a silicon-on-insulator wafer.
A 17 cm long multimode waveguide has been fabricated in an area of 0.85 mm2 on a silicon-on-insulator chip.
Researchers from Alcatel-Lucent in the US have presented a new compact photonic modulator which combines a high-speed amplified AlGaInAs modulator array with a lowloss passive silica-on-silicon planar lightwave circuit.
Optical filters based on Fano resonances in patterned silicon nanomembranes on both glass and flexible PET substrates have been demonstrated experimentally by US-based researchers.
This unique supplement to Electronics Letters contains a mix of contemporary articles, Insight Letters, Landmark Letters and recent technical Letters which explore the past, present and future of silicon photonics.
The cover image is based on the silicon evanescent laser developed by researchers at the University of California Santa Barbara and Intel.
Invited Letters written by leading experts giving a global overview of silicon photonics.
The pioneering work from the 1980s
Letters selected from recently published silicon photonics research in Electronics Letters.