Silicon Photonics: Challenges and Future Directions
A special issue of Photonics (ISSN 2304-6732).
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 30 October 2026 | Viewed by 5
Special Issue Editors
Interests: silicon photonic components; optical sensing; optical cavity; integrated circuits; optical devices
Interests: optical signal processing; integrated photonic devices; optical sensing; laser technology; electromagnetic analysis software
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Integrated photonic components, especially those built on silicon platforms, are revolutionizing optoelectronics by enabling compact, high-performance, and multifunctional systems on a chip. In order to meet the rapidly and continuously increasing demands of performance and functions in a variety of application scenarios, silicon photonic devices have currently been exhibiting conspicuous trends of dense integration and synergetic development with other material systems. Leveraging high-performance silicon active and passive components and innovative manufacturing technologies, silicon photonics has shown great potential in advancing optical communications, sensing, and other emerging applications including neuromorphic computing and quantum information processing. To thoroughly showcase the latest breakthroughs in this prosperously evolving domain and foster scholarly exchange, we are pleased to invite you to contribute to this Special Issue, which will compile a collection of high-quality research and review articles that address the challenges and innovations in the design, fabrication, integration, and application of chip-scale sophisticated silicon-based components and systems.
In this Special Issue, topical reviews and original research articles in the forms of theory, simulations, and/or experiments are warmly welcome. Research areas may include (but are not limited to) the following:
- Novel photonic passive devices and circuits;
- The electromagnetic numerical analysis method;
- On-chip lasers and amplifiers;
- High-speed modulators and photodetectors;
- Heterogeneous and hybrid integration;
- Near-/Mid-infrared silicon photonics;
- Applications in datacom, sensing, computing, metrology and quantum processing.
We look forward to receiving your contributions.
Dr. Bin Ni
Dr. Shengbao Wu
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- integrated photonic circuits
- silicon photonics
- photonic components
- heterogeneous integration
- optical communication
- optical sensing
- computing
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