Indistinguishable photons from an artificial atom in silicon photonics. [PDF]
Nat Commun, 2022 Silicon is the ideal material for building electronic and photonic circuits at scale. Integrated photonic quantum technologies in silicon offer a promising path to scaling by leveraging advanced semiconductor manufacturing and integration capabilities ...
Komza L +10 more
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Roadmapping the next generation of silicon photonics. [PDF]
Nat Commun, 2023 Silicon photonics has developed into a mainstream technology driven by advances in optical communications. The current generation has led to a proliferation of integrated photonic devices from thousands to millions-mainly in the form of communication ...
Shekhar S +6 more
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Free-Space Applications of Silicon Photonics: A Review. [PDF]
Micromachines (Basel), 2022 Silicon photonics has recently expanded its applications to delivering free-space emissions for detecting or manipulating external objects. The most notable example is the silicon optical phased array, which can steer a free-space beam to achieve a chip ...
Hsu CY, Yiu GZ, Chang YC.
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Integrated metasurfaces on silicon photonics for emission shaping and holographic projection. [PDF]
Nanophotonics, 2022 The emerging applications of silicon photonics in free space, such as LiDARs, free-space optical communications, and quantum photonics, urge versatile emission shaping beyond the capabilities of conventional grating couplers.
Hsieh PY +6 more
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A Review on Terahertz Technologies Accelerated by Silicon Photonics. [PDF]
Nanomaterials (Basel), 2021 In the last couple of decades, terahertz (THz) technologies, which lie in the frequency gap between the infrared and microwaves, have been greatly enhanced and investigated due to possible opportunities in a plethora of THz applications, such as imaging,
Xie J +6 more
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3D integration enables ultralow-noise isolator-free lasers in silicon photonics. [PDF]
Nature, 2023 Photonic integrated circuits are widely used in applications such as telecommunications and data-centre interconnects^ 1 – 5 . However, in optical systems such as microwave synthesizers^ 6 , optical gyroscopes^ 7 and atomic clocks^ 8 , photonic ...
Xiang C +14 more
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Individually addressable and spectrally programmable artificial atoms in silicon photonics. [PDF]
Nat Commun, 2023 Realising integrated photonic circuits containing isolated telecommunications-wavelength artificial atom single photon emitters is an outstanding challenge in quantum technologies. Here, the authors demonstrate how to embed optically tunable G-centers in
Prabhu M +6 more
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Noise-resilient and high-speed deep learning with coherent silicon photonics. [PDF]
Nat Commun, 2022 The explosive growth of deep learning applications has triggered a new era in computing hardware, targeting the efficient deployment of multiply-and-accumulate operations.
Mourgias-Alexandris G +11 more
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A large-scale microelectromechanical-systems-based silicon photonics LiDAR. [PDF]
Nature, 2022 Three-dimensional (3D) imaging sensors allow machines to perceive, map and interact with the surrounding world1. The size of light detection and ranging (LiDAR) devices is often limited by mechanical scanners.
Zhang X +4 more
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Integrated Silicon Photonics for Enabling Next-Generation Space Systems
Photonics, 2021 A review of silicon photonics for space applications is presented. The benefits and advantages of size, weight, power, and cost (SWaP-C) metrics inherent to silicon photonics are summarized.
George N. Tzintzarov +2 more
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