Silicon-Based Integrated Optics: From Design to Applications

Dear Colleagues,

Photonics welcomes your submission to a Special Issue on silicon-based integrated optics: From design to applications.

Silicon-based integrated optics is a silicon platform from which photonic-integrated circuits can be made. It uses silicon wafers as the semiconductor substrate material and can be manufactured by using established foundry due to compatibility with CMOS (complementary metal oxide semiconductor) fabrication. Not only silicon but also silicon nitride can serve as core materials for silicon-based integrated optics. This makes it possible to transport the light in these waveguides over a wider wavelength, ranging from infrared light to visible light. Various integration techniques exist to integrate lasers, modulators, and photodetectors in silicon-based wafers to realize optical components with different functions. Silicon-based integrated optics with electronic integrated circuits (ICs) in one chip can provide a complete solution for applications of optical communication, sensors, biomedical sciences, automobiles, astronomy, aerospace, augmented reality (AR), virtual reality (VR), and artificial intelligence (AI).

Topics of interest include, but are not limited to, the following:

• Active and passive integrated photonic devices on silicon-based platforms.
• Fabrication and characterization technologies for silicon-based integrated optics.
• Device theory, modelling, and design: machine learning and reverse engineering.
• Applications of silicon-based integrated optics devices.
• Silicon-based integrated nonlinear and quantum optics.
• New materials on silicon platforms for integrated optics.

Prof. Dr. Mingyu Li
Guest Editor

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• silicon photonics
• photonic integration
• integrated circuits
• CMOS