Integrated Nanophotonics: Platforms, Devices, and Applications

Integrated Nanophotonics

Helps readers understand the important advances in nanophotonics materials development and their latest applications

This book introduces the current state of and emerging trends in the development of integrated nanophotonics. Written by three well-qualified authors, it systematically reviews the knowledge of integrated nanophotonics from theory to the most recent technological developments. It also covers the applications of integrated nanophotonics in essential areas such as neuromorphic computing, biosensing, and optical communications. Lastly, it brings together the latest advancements in the key principles of photonic integrated circuits, plus the recent advances in tackling the barriers in photonic integrated circuits.

Sample topics included in this comprehensive resource include:

• Platforms for integrated nanophotonics, including lithium niobate nanophotonics, indium phosphide nanophotonics, silicon nanophotonics, and nonlinear optics for integrated photonics
• The devices and technologies for integrated nanophotonics in on-chip light sources, optical packaging of photonic integrated circuits, optical interconnects, and light processing devices
• Applications on neuromorphic computing, biosensing, LIDAR, and computing for AI and artificial neural network and deep learning

Materials scientists, physicists, and physical chemists can use this book to understand the totality of cutting-edge theory, research, and applications in the field of integrated nanophotonics.

Peng Yu received the M.S. and PhD. degrees from University of Electronic Science and Technology of China (UESTC), Chengdu, China, in 2015 and 2018, respectively. From February 2017- February 2018, he was a visiting scholar with Department of Electronic Materials Engineering, Research School of Physics, Australian National University. He is currently a research assistant in the Institute of Fundamental and Frontier Sciences, UESTC. His current research interests include plasmon-enhanced light-matter interactions, photonic integrated circuits. He has published over 30 Journal papers, and edited one book.

Hongxing Xu mainly engaged in plasmonics, nanophotonics, single-molecule surface-enhanced Raman spectroscopy and integrated nanophotonic devices. He is one of the pioneers in single-molecule surface-enhanced Raman spectroscopy (SERS) and plasmonics. He discovered the plasmonic nanogap effect for huge electromagnetic enhancement, which is the physical basis of single-molecule SERS and many other plasmon-enhanced optical processes. He demonstrated the probing of sub-picometer vertical differential resolutions using cavity plasmons. He invented plasmonic logic gates and revealed the fundamental properties and mechanisms of plasmonic nanowire waveguides and networks. He published more than 200 peer-reviewed papers with over 15000 citations and H-index 60 on Web of Science. He gave more than 70 invited presentations at international conferences and organized more than 20 international conferences and workshops. He is an associate editor of Nanoscale and Optics Express and a member of the advisory board or editorial board of Nanoscale, Nanophotonics, Frontiers of Physics, etc.

Zhiming Wang is currently a professor in University of Electronic Science and Technology of China. He has long been engaged in the molecular beam epitaxial growth and characterization of compound semiconductor nanomaterials, and the design and preparation of optoelectronic prototype devices. He is one of the leaders in this field in the world and has achieved a series of innovative research results. He has published about 300 peer-reviewed articles with H-index 38. He also serves as editor of many international journals.