Semiconductor Engineering

Overview and Comparison of Devices Used For Optical Waveguide-to-Waveguide Coupling (MIT et al.)

A new technical paper titled “Advances in waveguide to waveguide couplers for 3D integrated photonic packaging” was published ...
Electronic Design

Photonic ICs: Progress Across Many Fronts, End Applications

How researchers are employing advanced materials and semiconductor techniques to address electro-optical needs. How they developed photonic IC (PIC) circuit elements including power couplers, phase ...
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The architecture of the silicon photonic MEMS switch with gap-adjustable directional couplers. (IMAGE)

The architecture of the silicon photonic MEMS switch with gap-adjustable directional couplers. Light is coupled to the chip using the grating couplers. There are two pairs of the directional couplers ...
Semiconductor Engineering

Silicon Photonics: Solving Process Variation And Manufacturing Challenges

As silicon photonics manufacturing gains momentum with additional foundry and 300mm offerings, process variation issues are coming to light. Variability in silicon processing affects the waveguide ...
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Low-loss chip-scale programmable silicon photonic processor

A new publication from Opto-Electronic Advances, 10.29026/oea.2023.220030 discusses low-loss chip-scale programmable silicon photonic processors. Integrated optical signal processors have been ...