Advances in Silicon Photonics: From Fundamentals to Applications
A special issue of Photonics (ISSN 2304-6732). This special issue belongs to the section "Optoelectronics and Optical Materials".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 20 February 2025 | Viewed by 135
Special Issue Editors
Interests: silicon photonics; silicon-based photodetector; visible light communication; avalanche photodetector; near-infrared imaging
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Dear Colleagues,
Silicon photonics has developed into a mainstream technology driven by advances in optical communications. The main drive for silicon photonics is the ability to transmit and manipulate ultra-high bandwidth with low power dissipation. Moreover, silicon photonics has transformed from a challenger technology in the small-scale integration era to arguably a dominant technology in the medium-scale integration era for intra- and inter-datacenter interconnects, and it is poised to become the incumbent technology in the large-scale integration era.
The purpose of this Special Issue is to introduce the development of novel chip-scale technologies, novel devices and novel materials compatible with silicon photonics and its new applications, ranging from Lidar to biomedical devices. We invite you to present a research paper on the theoretical fundamentals and practical applications of silicon photonics in this Special Issue of Photonics on “Advances in Silicon Photonics: From Fundamentals to Applications”. This Special Issue will feature original research articles as well as reviews. Topics include, but are not limited to, the following:
- High-speed modulators;
- Phase-shifters for tuning and switching;
- Silicon photonic MEMS;
- High-speed photodetectors;
- Laser integration;
- Avalanche photodetectors;
- Efficient fiber-to-waveguide couplers;
- Microresonator physics;
- Hermitian and non-Hermitian physics;
- Neuromorphic photonics;
- Nonlinear silicon photonics;
- Integrated quantum photonics;
- Silicon PhC devices.
Dr. Chong Li
Dr. Hui Cong
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- laser integration
- high-speed modulators
- phase-shifters for tuning and switching
- avalanche photodetectors
- quantum photonics
- electronic and photonic integration
- microresonator physics
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