Defying conventional wisdom, researchers have uncovered a novel coupling mechanism involving leaky mode, previously has been considered unsuitable for high-density integration in photonic circuits.

Sound engineering: The new device is a chip-based single-phonon directional coupler that carries out controllable phonon splitting. It could enable microscopic on-chip routers and splitters that link ...

III-V photonic crystal (PhC) lasers are potential ultra-compact and power-efficient light sources for future on-chip optical ...

Zeng, Lingzhen, Lu, Wei-Chun, Grimes, Paul K., Chen, Tse-Jun, Chang, Yen-Pin, Tong, Cheuk-yu, and Wang, Ming-Jye. 2020. "A Silicon Chip-Based Waveguide Directional ...

(Nanowerk Spotlight) The concepts of metamaterials and metasurfaces have spawned massive novel applications in free-space optics. However, recent research also indicates that they possess prominent ...

A technical paper titled “Low-Loss Integration of High-Density Polymer Waveguides with Silicon Photonics for Co-Packaged Optics” was published by researchers at imec and Ghent University. “Co-Packaged ...