We review Sandia’s silicon photonics platform for government applications. Silicon photonics offers the potential for extensive size, weight, power, and cost (SWaP-c) reductions compared to existing III-V or purely electronics circuits. The Sandia fabrication facility is certified as a trusted foundry and can therefore produce devices and circuits intended for military applications. We will des...

Datacom and Telecom are continuously improving in terms of bandwidth, consumption and cost. The request of bandwith increase at constant consumption and cost requires increasing technology challenge. According to the Ethernet roadmap the bandwidth doubles every two years [1] and the candidate technology for large volume and low cost is Silicon Photonics [2]. With Si Photonics it is possible to ...

Monolithic integration of various kinds of optical components on a silicon wafer is the key to making silicon (Si) photonics practical technology. Applying silicon photonics to telecommunications further requires low insertion loss and polarization independence. We propose an integration concept for telecommunications based on Si and related materials and demonstrate monolithic integration of p...

Bryn Bell, Srikanth Kannan, Alex McMillan, Alex S. Clark, William J. Wadsworth, and John G. Rarity1,∗ Centre for Quantum Photonics, Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering, University of Bristol, Bristol BS8 1UB, UK Centre for Ultrahigh bandwidth Devices for Optical Systems (CUDOS), Institute of Photonics and Optical Science, University of Sydney, NSW 2006, Australia and Centre for ...

1 Central Research Laboratory, Hamamatsu Photonics K.K., Hamamatsu, Japan 2 Department of Biofunctional Imaging, Medical Photonics Research Centre, Hamamatsu University School of Medicine, 1-20-1 Handayama, Higashi-ku, Hamamatsu, Japan 3 Department of Molecular Imaging, Medical Photonics Research Centre, Hamamatsu University School of Medicine, 1-20-1 Handayama, Higashi-ku, Hamamatsu, Japan 4 D...

We provide an overview of techniques for the photonic generation of arbitrary RF waveforms, particularly those suitable for impulse radio or multi-band ultrawideband (UWB)-over-fiber transmission, and chirped microwave waveforms, with an emphasis on microwave photonic filtering and optical spectral shaping followed by wavelength-to-time mapping. We discuss possibilities for integrating the vari...

821 Frequency, wavevector, polarization and phase are degrees of freedom that are often used to describe a photonic system. Over the past few years, topology — a property of a photonic material that characterizes the quantized global behaviour of the wavefunctions on its entire dispersion band — has emerged as another indispensable degree of freedom, thus opening a path towards the discovery of...

1 Graduate Institute of Precision Engineering, National Chung Hsing University, Taichung 402, Taiwan 2 Photonics Technology Center, Department of Electronic and Computer Engineering, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Clear Water Bay, Kowloon, Hong Kong 3Department of Photonics and Institute of Electro-Optical Engineering, National Chiao Tung University, Hsinchu 30010, Taiwan 4Cent...