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 ...

(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 “Unlocking the monolithic integration scenario: optical coupling between GaSb diode lasers epitaxially grown on patterned Si substrates and passive SiN waveguides” was ...

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 ...

What are modal effects? Integrated photonics—the devices and the materials used to make them happen. One of the key planar-waveguide configurations: the ring resonator. The roots of waveguide optics ...

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 ...