Photonic Integrated Circuits: Techniques, Insights and Devices
A special issue of Photonics (ISSN 2304-6732). This special issue belongs to the section "Optoelectronics and Optical Materials".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (30 June 2025) | Viewed by 635
Special Issue Editor
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Photonic integrated circuits (PICs) represent a groundbreaking technology in the field of photonics, enabling the integration of complex photonic functions onto a single chip, such as light generation, modulation, routing, detection, and emission. It combines the scientific advantages of optical research with the scalability and integration capabilities of traditional electronic integrated circuits. This field spans multiple disciplines such as photonics, electronics, materials science, and biomedicine, and has the potential for a wide range of applications, including telecommunications, data centers, sensing, and biomedical devices.
Compared with traditional off-chip optical research, PICs not only offer integration and reduced energy consumption, but provide support for the maneuverability and stability of systems. With the current exponential growth of data pressure, PICs will provide an important platform and strategy for the future of optical computing, quantum computing, artificial intelligence, and life sciences.
This Special Issue, entitled "Photonic Integrated Circuits", welcomes the contribution of original research and review papers that provide fundamental research, studies on innovative applications and interdisciplinary research, among others. The scope of this Special Issue includes, but is not limited to, the following topics:
- Exploring new optoelectronic integrated circuits that combine photonic and electronic technologies to enhance the transmission speed and efficiency of data.
- Investigating adaptive photonic network architectures for dynamic routing and resource allocation, enhancing network flexibility and efficiency.
- Studying the application of nonlinear optics in photonic integrated circuits to enable novel signal processing and information transmission functionalities.
- Designing high-sensitivity integrated optical sensors for applications in on-chip sensing, optical interconnect and biological detection.
- Investigating the use of quantum states for information transmission and processing to achieve ultra-efficient quantum communication and computing.
- Investigating other photonics technologies that use photonic integrated circuits to achieve improvements in functionality and integration.
Dr. Wenzhao Sun
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- photonic integrated circuit
- optical materials
- optical communications
- integrated devices
- biomedical devices
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