Advancements in waveguide architectures using high-performance silica-on-silicon platform - INVITED

Abstract

Novel applications in optical coherence tomography (OCT) and LiDAR systems have become possible due to performance characteristics of a state-of-the-art silica-on-silicon planar lightwave circuit (PLC) platform. We have achieved ultra-low propagation losses of <0.009 dB/cm with unmatched phase control in a polarization-insensitive way, enabling a range of real-time advanced vision and imaging applications utilizing k-clocks and analog frequency sampling architectures.