Silicon Photonics and Integrated Optics: Fundamentals and Applications
A special issue of Micromachines (ISSN 2072-666X). This special issue belongs to the section "A：Physics".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (30 April 2024) | Viewed by 2921
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Interests: optical logic circuits; semiconductor optical amplifiers; silicon photonics; photonic device integration
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Dear Colleagues,
In photonic-integrated platforms, many of the optical and electrical components used to build a transceiver are packed into highly integrated chips known as photonics integrated circuits (PICs). Integrating all of the components into a single substrate reduces the cost of building the transceiver and decreases the power due to fewer coupling effects occurring between the discrete optical components.
Recently, silicon has been used as a basic element to make passive and active photonic devices owing to its high thermal and mechanical properties, stability, high quality, low loss, and large bandwidth extending from 1.1 to nearly 7 μm. On the other hand, owing to the high transparency of silicon in the infrared spectrum and the wide refractive index difference between silicon (~3.45) and silica (~1.46), silicon-on-insulator (SOI) waveguides exhibit unique optical features. Due to advancements in silicon electronic device fabrication, silicon photonic devices can now be made available by utilizing the same complementary metal-oxide semiconductor platform, especially with the help of mature SOI technology. The field of silicon waveguides is broad and multi-disciplinary in nature, drawing upon knowledge in fields ranging from, among others, physics; materials and devices; communications, signal processing, and information theory; neuroscience; quantum information science; linear and non-linear science; computing; and ultrafast science. Therefore, Micromachines requests manuscripts for submission in this Special Issue titled “Silicon Photonics and Integrated Optics: Fundamentals and Applications” in order to expand knowledge of this important area. Submissions focusing on advancing fundamental knowledge and techniques, as well as their applications in diverse areas ranging from communications to natural and biological sciences, are very welcome. The purpose of this Special Issue is to provide an overview of ongoing progress and trends related to the advancement of the knowledge, understanding, and novel applications of silicon photonics and integrated optics.
Dr. Amer Kotb
Dr. Qifeng Lu
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- silicon photonics
- silicon chips
- silicon technology
- silicon-on-insulator waveguides
- metal–insulator–metal waveguides
- dielectric-loaded waveguides
- nanowire waveguides
- optical amplifiers
- photonic crystal waveguides
- computational photonics
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