Photonic Integrated Circuits: Recent Advances and Future Perspectives
A special issue of Photonics (ISSN 2304-6732).
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 15 January 2026 | Viewed by 90
Special Issue Editors
Interests: photonic integrated circuits; metasurfaces; neuromorphic computing
Interests: transmission electron microscopy; spectroscopy; microstructural analysis; neuromorphic quantum photonics
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Photonic integrated circuits combine multiple photonic components with diverse functionalities into a single chip, enabling efficient light-based computing, signal processing, and communications. By harnessing the unique and fundamental properties of light, photonic integrated circuits offer key benefits such as low power consumption, ultra-high bandwidth, and inherent parallelism. With the accelerating growth of fields such as artificial intelligence, cloud computing, and real-time sensing, the demand for faster data processing, improved energy efficiency, and greater system scalability is also gaining momentum. Advances in materials science, fabrication methods, and integration technology are not only enhancing individual device performance but also enabling innovative architectures that support increasingly complex and powerful photonic integrated circuits for practical, real-world applications.
This Special Issue highlights recent progress that has been made in photonic integrated circuits, with a particular focus on innovative device design, system-level integration, and their emerging roles in sensing, computing, and communication applications. We are happy to invite contributions spanning theory, fabrication, system demonstrations, and application case studies.
Potential topics of interest include, but are not limited to:
- Integrated optical passive and active devices;
- AI-assisted photonic design;
- Photonic device fabrication and packaging techniques;
- Hybrid integration;
- Emerging material platforms for integrated photonics;
- Quantum photonics;
- Neuromorphic photonics;
- Optical interconnects;
- Integrated photonic sensors and biophotonics;
- Integrated lidar system;
- New applications for photonic integrated circuits.
Dr. Rongyang Xu
Dr. Shabnam Taheriniya
Dr. Xinyu Ma
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- integrated optics
- photonic integrated circuits
- interconnects
- neuromorphic photonics
- quantum photonics
- lidar
- biophotonics
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