Silicon Photonic Integrated Circuits: Advancements and Challenges

Dear Colleagues,

We are pleased to invite you to contribute to a Special Issue focused on the advancements and future challenges of silicon photonic integrated circuits. The field of silicon photonic integrated circuits has seen remarkable progress in recent decades, providing innovative solutions for high-bandwidth communication, quantum information processing, lab-on-a-chip, chip-scale LIDAR, and future optical accelerators, among many others. Key developments in CMOS integration, material improvements, and on-chip lasers have propelled the field forward. Meanwhile, significant challenges remain, including thermal management, scalability, power consumption, and cost. Addressing these issues is crucial for unlocking the full potential of silicon photonics. By identifying these challenges and obstacles, we hope to stimulate further research in these critical areas for next-generation silicon photonic ecosystems.

This Special Issue aims to compile contributions that highlight both the advancements and ongoing challenges in silicon photonics across various applications. We welcome both research and review articles.

Dr. Stanley Cheung
Dr. Yingtao Hu
Guest Editors

Manuscript Submission Information

Manuscripts should be submitted online at www.mdpi.com by registering and logging in to this website. Once you are registered, click here to go to the submission form. Manuscripts can be submitted until the deadline. All submissions that pass pre-check are peer-reviewed. Accepted papers will be published continuously in the journal (as soon as accepted) and will be listed together on the special issue website. Research articles, review articles as well as short communications are invited. For planned papers, a title and short abstract (about 100 words) can be sent to the Editorial Office for announcement on this website.

Submitted manuscripts should not have been published previously, nor be under consideration for publication elsewhere (except conference proceedings papers). All manuscripts are thoroughly refereed through a single-blind peer-review process. A guide for authors and other relevant information for submission of manuscripts is available on the Instructions for Authors page. Chips is an international peer-reviewed open access quarterly journal published by MDPI.

Please visit the Instructions for Authors page before submitting a manuscript. The Article Processing Charge (APC) for publication in this open access journal is 1000 CHF (Swiss Francs). Submitted papers should be well formatted and use good English. Authors may use MDPI's English editing service prior to publication or during author revisions.

• silicon photonics
• photonic integrated circuits
• optical interconnects
• quantum computing
• sensors
• AI