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Photonics Research Feature Issue

Advancing Integrated Photonics: From Device Innovation to System Integration

Submission Open: 1 July 2023

Submission Deadline: 30 September 2023

Integrated photonics enables the synthesis, processing and detection of optical signals using photonic integrated circuits (PICs). It has rapidly transformed numerous fields and applications by enabling faster and more efficient ways to process and transmit information, as well as new techniques for telecommunications, sensing, medical diagnosis, and quantum computing, just to name a few. With its intrinsic high speed, large bandwidth, and unlimited parallelism, integrated photonics plays a critical role in handling high-throughput, data-intensive applications. Over the past few decades, the successful translation from laboratory research to commercial deployment has established integrated photonics as a standard technology widely used in high-data-rate telecommunications and datacenters. With the development of heterogeneous integration for various material platforms, researchers have demonstrated myriad novel devices, including miniaturized classical and quantum light sources, micro-resonator frequency combs, ultrafast electro-optic modulators, programmable MEMS-controlled circuits, and large-scale on-chip photonic networks. These advancements are continuously impacting our society and opening up new opportunities in areas such as optical communications, photonic computing, frequency metrology, and LiDAR.

This invitation-only special issue in Photonics Research will feature a collection of scientific papers in the areas of emerging integrated photonics in both classical and quantum regimes, covering the latest research and technology development in integrated photonics from device-level innovations to system integration and packaging.

The scope of this special session includes but is not limited to:

  • Miniaturized light sources, such as nanolasers and quantum emitters
  • Large-scale photonic network for signal processing, routing, and switching
  • Nonlinear integrated photonics and applications
  • Heterogeneous integration of various material platforms for active functions
  • Reconfigurable photonic computing and artificial intelligence
  • Integrated photonics for quantum information science and technology
  • Integrated photonics beyond telecom wavelengths
  • Photonic integrated circuits for optical communications and microwave photonics
  • Novel photonic structures with designs guided by new topology/symmetry paradigms
  • Novel materials, manufacturing and packaging approaches for photonic integrated circuits

All submissions need to present original, previously unpublished work and will be subject to the normal standards and peer review processes of the journal. The standard Photonics Research Article Processing Charges will apply to all published research articles. Please prepare manuscripts according to the author instructions for submission to Photonics Research and and submit through Optica Publishing Group's electronic submission system, specifying from the drop-down menu that the manuscript is for the feature issue on Integrated Photonics.

Feature Issue Guest Editors

Liang Feng, University of Pennsylvania, USA (Lead Editor)

Junqiu Liu, Shenzhen International Quantum Academy, China

Cheng Wang, City University of Hong Kong, China