Coupling strategy between high-index and mid-index micro-metric waveguides for O-band applications.

The integration of fast and power efficient electro-absorption modulators on silicon is of utmost importance for a wide range of applications. To date, Franz-Keldysh modulators formed of bulk Ge or GeSi have been widely adopted due to the simplicity of integration required by the modulation scheme. Nevertheless, to obtain operation for a wider range of wavelengths (O to C band) a thick stack of Ge/GeSi layers forming quantum wells is required, leading to a dramatic increase in the complexity linked to sub-micron waveguide coupling.

Mid-infrared silicon-on-insulator waveguides with single-mode propagation over an octave of frequency.

Increasing the working optical bandwidth of a photonic circuit is important for many applications, in particular chemical sensing at mid-infrared wavelengths. This useful bandwidth is not only limited by the transparency range of waveguide materials, but also the range over which a waveguide is single or multimoded for predictable circuit behaviour. In this work, we show the first experimental demonstration of "endlessly single-mode" waveguiding in silicon photonics.

Investigation of refractive index sensing based on Fano resonance in fiber Bragg grating ring resonators.

In this paper we theoretically investigate a ring resonant cavity obtained by closing on itself a π-shifted fiber Bragg grating, to be used for refractive index sensing applications. Differently from a conventional π-shifted fiber Bragg grating, the spectral structure of this cavity is characterized by an asymmetric splitting doublet composed by a right side resonance having an asymmetric Fano profile and a left side resonance having a symmetric Lorentzian profile. The right side resonance shows a narrower and sharper peak than all the other kinds of resonance achievable with both conventional ring resonators and π-shifted fiber Bragg gratings.

Investigation of fiber Bragg grating based mode-splitting resonant sensors.

In this paper, we report on theoretical investigation of split mode resonant sensors based on fiber Bragg grating (FBG) ring resonators and π-shifted fiber Bragg grating (π-FBG) ring resonators. By using a π-shifted Bragg grating ring resonator (π-FBGRR) instead of a conventional fiber Bragg grating ring resonator (FBGRR), the symmetric and antisymmetric resonance branches (i.e.