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Silicon photonics, the Glossary

Silicon photonics is the study and application of photonic systems which use silicon as an optical medium.^[1]

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Active laser medium

The active laser medium (also called a gain medium or lasing medium) is the source of optical gain within a laser.

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Applied Physics Letters

Applied Physics Letters is a weekly peer-reviewed scientific journal that is published by the American Institute of Physics.

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Augmented reality

Augmented reality (AR) is an interactive experience that combines the real world and computer-generated 3D content.

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Avalanche photodiode

An avalanche photodiode (APD) is a highly sensitive type of photodiode, which in general are semiconductor diodes that exploit the photoelectric effect to convert light into electricity.

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In electromagnetism, Brillouin scattering (also known as Brillouin light scattering or BLS), named after Léon Brillouin, refers to the interaction of light with the material waves in a medium (e.g. electrostriction and magnetostriction).

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California

California is a state in the Western United States, lying on the American Pacific Coast.

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Cambridge University Press

Cambridge University Press is the university press of the University of Cambridge.

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Carrier generation and recombination

In solid-state physics of semiconductors, carrier generation and carrier recombination are processes by which mobile charge carriers (electrons and electron holes) are created and eliminated.

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Cavity optomechanics

Cavity optomechanics is a branch of physics which focuses on the interaction between light and mechanical objects on low-energy scales.

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Centrosymmetry

In crystallography, a centrosymmetric point group contains an inversion center as one of its symmetry elements.

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Charge carrier

In solid state physics, a charge carrier is a particle or quasiparticle that is free to move, carrying an electric charge, especially the particles that carry electric charges in electrical conductors.

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Columbia University

Columbia University, officially Columbia University in the City of New York, is a private Ivy League research university in New York City.

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Complex number

In mathematics, a complex number is an element of a number system that extends the real numbers with a specific element denoted, called the imaginary unit and satisfying the equation i^.

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Data center

A data center (American English) or data centre (Commonwealth English)See spelling differences.

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Data communication

Data communication, including data transmission and data reception, is the transfer of data, transmitted and received over a point-to-point or point-to-multipoint communication channel.

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Diffusion

Diffusion is the net movement of anything (for example, atoms, ions, molecules, energy) generally from a region of higher concentration to a region of lower concentration.

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Dispersion (optics)

In optics and in wave propagation in general, dispersion is the phenomenon in which the phase velocity of a wave depends on its frequency; sometimes the term chromatic dispersion is used for specificity to optics in particular.

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Electric current

An electric current is a flow of charged particles, such as electrons or ions, moving through an electrical conductor or space.

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Electronics

Electronics is a scientific and engineering discipline that studies and applies the principles of physics to design, create, and operate devices that manipulate electrons and other electrically charged particles.

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Fiber-optic communication

Fiber-optic communication is a method of transmitting information from one place to another by sending pulses of infrared or visible light through an optical fiber. Silicon photonics and fiber-optic communication are photonics.

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Four-wave mixing

Four-wave mixing (FWM) is an intermodulation phenomenon in nonlinear optics, whereby interactions between two or three wavelengths produce two or one new wavelengths. Silicon photonics and Four-wave mixing are nonlinear optics and photonics.

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Fujitsu

is a Japanese multinational information and communications technology equipment and services corporation, established in 1935 and headquartered in Kawasaki, Kanagawa.

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Germanium

Germanium is a chemical element; it has symbol Ge and atomic number 32.

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Graphene

Graphene is an allotrope of carbon consisting of a single layer of atoms arranged in a honeycomb nanostructure.

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Group velocity

The group velocity of a wave is the velocity with which the overall envelope shape of the wave's amplitudes—known as the modulation or envelope of the wave—propagates through space.

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Heat

In thermodynamics, heat is the thermal energy transferred between systems due to a temperature difference.

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Helium

Helium (from lit) is a chemical element; it has symbol He and atomic number 2.

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Hybrid silicon laser

A hybrid silicon laser is a semiconductor laser fabricated from both silicon and group III-V semiconductor materials.

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Hyperbolic functions

In mathematics, hyperbolic functions are analogues of the ordinary trigonometric functions, but defined using the hyperbola rather than the circle.

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IBM

International Business Machines Corporation (using the trademark IBM), nicknamed Big Blue, is an American multinational technology company headquartered in Armonk, New York and present in over 175 countries.

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IEEE Journal of Quantum Electronics

The IEEE Journal of Quantum Electronics is a peer-reviewed scientific journal covering optical, electrical, and electronics engineering, and some applied aspects of lasers, physical optics, and quantum electronics.

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Imaginary number

An imaginary number is the product of a real number and the imaginary unit, is usually used in engineering contexts where has other meanings (such as electrical current) which is defined by its property.

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Indium phosphide

Indium phosphide (InP) is a binary semiconductor composed of indium and phosphorus.

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Infrared

Infrared (IR; sometimes called infrared light) is electromagnetic radiation (EMR) with wavelengths longer than that of visible light but shorter than microwaves.

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Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers

The Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) is an American 501(c)(3) professional association for electronics engineering, electrical engineering, and other related disciplines.

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Insulator (electricity)

An electrical insulator is a material in which electric current does not flow freely.

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Integrated circuit

An integrated circuit (IC), also known as a microchip, computer chip, or simply chip, is a small electronic device made up of multiple interconnected electronic components such as transistors, resistors, and capacitors.

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Intel

Intel Corporation is an American multinational corporation and technology company headquartered in Santa Clara, California, and incorporated in Delaware.

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Interface conditions for electromagnetic fields

Interface conditions describe the behaviour of electromagnetic fields; electric field, electric displacement field, and the magnetic field at the interface of two materials.

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Internet

The Internet (or internet) is the global system of interconnected computer networks that uses the Internet protocol suite (TCP/IP) to communicate between networks and devices.

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Intrinsic semiconductor

An intrinsic semiconductor, also called a pure semiconductor, undoped semiconductor or i-type semiconductor, is a semiconductor without any significant dopant species present.

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Ion implantation

Ion implantation is a low-temperature process by which ions of one element are accelerated into a solid target, thereby changing the physical, chemical, or electrical properties of the target.

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Israel

Israel, officially the State of Israel, is a country in the Southern Levant, West Asia.

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Journal of Applied Physics

The Journal of Applied Physics is a peer-reviewed scientific journal with a focus on the physics of modern technology.

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Journal of Lightwave Technology

The Journal of Lightwave Technology is a biweekly peer-reviewed scientific journal covering optical guided-wave science, technology, and engineering.

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Journal of Physics D

Journal of Physics D: Applied Physics is a peer-reviewed scientific journal published by IOP Publishing.

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Journal of the Optical Society of America

The Journal of the Optical Society of America is a peer-reviewed scientific journal of optics, published by Optica.

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Kerr effect

The Kerr effect, also called the quadratic electro-optic (QEO) effect, is a change in the refractive index of a material in response to an applied electric field. Silicon photonics and Kerr effect are nonlinear optics.

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Laser

A laser is a device that emits light through a process of optical amplification based on the stimulated emission of electromagnetic radiation. Silicon photonics and laser are photonics.

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Light

Light, visible light, or visible radiation is electromagnetic radiation that can be perceived by the human eye.

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Light field

A light field, or lightfield, is a vector function that describes the amount of light flowing in every direction through every point in a space.

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Mach–Zehnder interferometer

The Mach–Zehnder interferometer is a device used to determine the relative phase shift variations between two collimated beams derived by splitting light from a single source.

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Magic Leap

Magic Leap, Inc. is an American technology company that released a head-mounted augmented reality display, called Magic Leap One, which superimposes 3D computer-generated imagery over real world objects.

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Mathematical descriptions of opacity

When an electromagnetic wave travels through a medium in which it gets attenuated (this is called an "opaque" or "attenuating" medium), it undergoes exponential decay as described by the Beer–Lambert law.

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In solid-state physics, a metal–semiconductor (M–S) junction is a type of electrical junction in which a metal comes in close contact with a semiconductor material.

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Microelectronics

Microelectronics is a subfield of electronics.

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Microphotonics

Microphotonics is a branch of technology that deals with directing light on a microscopic scale and is used in optical networking. Silicon photonics and Microphotonics are photonics.

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Modal dispersion

Modal dispersion is a distortion mechanism occurring in multimode fibers and other waveguides, in which the signal is spread in time because the propagation velocity of the optical signal is not the same for all modes.

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Modulational instability

In the fields of nonlinear optics and fluid dynamics, modulational instability or sideband instability is a phenomenon whereby deviations from a periodic waveform are reinforced by nonlinearity, leading to the generation of spectral-sidebands and the eventual breakup of the waveform into a train of pulses. Silicon photonics and modulational instability are nonlinear optics and photonics.

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Moore's law

Moore's law is the observation that the number of transistors in an integrated circuit (IC) doubles about every two years.

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Nanoelectromechanical systems

Nanoelectromechanical systems (NEMS) are a class of devices integrating electrical and mechanical functionality on the nanoscale.

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Nanometre

molecular scale. The nanometre (international spelling as used by the International Bureau of Weights and Measures; SI symbol: nm), or nanometer (American spelling), is a unit of length in the International System of Units (SI), equal to one billionth (short scale) of a meter (0.000000001 m) and to 1000 picometres.

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Nanotechnology

Nanotechnology is the manipulation of matter with at least one dimension sized from 1 to 100 nanometers (nm).

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Nature (journal)

Nature is a British weekly scientific journal founded and based in London, England.

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Nature Photonics

Nature Photonics is a peer-reviewed scientific journal published by the Nature Publishing Group.

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Nippon Telegraph and Telephone

(NTT) (Corporate Number: 7010001065142) is a Japanese telecommunications holding company headquartered in Tokyo, Japan.

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Nonlinear optics

Nonlinear optics (NLO) is the branch of optics that describes the behaviour of light in nonlinear media, that is, media in which the polarization density P responds non-linearly to the electric field E of the light.

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Nonlinear Schrödinger equation

In theoretical physics, the (one-dimensional) nonlinear Schrödinger equation (NLSE) is a nonlinear variation of the Schrödinger equation.

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Optical computing

Optical computing or photonic computing uses light waves produced by lasers or incoherent sources for data processing, data storage or data communication for computing. Silicon photonics and Optical computing are photonics.

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Optical fiber

An optical fiber, or optical fibre, is a flexible glass or plastic fiber that can transmit light from one end to the other.

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Optical interconnect

In integrated circuits, optical interconnects refers to any system of transmitting signals from one part of an integrated circuit to another using light.

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Optical medium

In optics, an optical medium is material through which light and other electromagnetic waves propagate.

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Optical parametric amplifier

An optical parametric amplifier, abbreviated OPA, is a laser light source that emits light of variable wavelengths by an optical parametric amplification process. Silicon photonics and optical parametric amplifier are nonlinear optics.

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Optical transistor

An optical transistor, also known as an optical switch or a light valve, is a device that switches or amplifies optical signals.

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Optics

Optics is the branch of physics that studies the behaviour and properties of light, including its interactions with matter and the construction of instruments that use or detect it.

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Optics Express

Optics Express is a biweekly peer-reviewed scientific journal published by Optica.

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Optics Letters

Optics Letters is a biweekly peer-reviewed scientific journal published by Optica (formerly known as Optical Society of America).

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Parasitic capacitance

Parasitic capacitance or stray capacitance is the unavoidable and usually unwanted capacitance that exists between the parts of an electronic component or circuit simply because of their proximity to each other.

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Pat Gelsinger

Patrick Paul Gelsinger (born March 5, 1961) is an American business executive and engineer, and CEO of Intel.

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P–n junction

A p–n junction is a combination of two types of semiconductor materials, p-type and n-type, in a single crystal.

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Photodetector

Photodetectors, also called photosensors, are sensors of light or other electromagnetic radiation.

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Photon

A photon is an elementary particle that is a quantum of the electromagnetic field, including electromagnetic radiation such as light and radio waves, and the force carrier for the electromagnetic force.

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Photonic integrated circuit

A photonic integrated circuit (PIC) or integrated optical circuit is a microchip containing two or more photonic components that form a functioning circuit. Silicon photonics and photonic integrated circuit are photonics.

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Photonics

Photonics is a branch of optics that involves the application of generation, detection, and manipulation of light in form of photons through emission, transmission, modulation, signal processing, switching, amplification, and sensing.

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PIN diode

A PIN diode is a diode with a wide, undoped intrinsic semiconductor region between a p-type semiconductor and an n-type semiconductor region.

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Pockels effect

In optics, the Pockels effect, or Pockels electro-optic effect, is a directionally-dependent linear variation in the refractive index of an optical medium that occurs in response to the application of an electric field. Silicon photonics and Pockels effect are nonlinear optics.

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Polymer

A polymer is a substance or material consisting of very large molecules linked together into chains of repeating subunits.

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Raman amplification

Raman amplification is based on the stimulated Raman scattering (SRS) phenomenon, when a lower frequency 'signal' photon induces the inelastic scattering of a higher-frequency 'pump' photon in an optical medium in the nonlinear regime.

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Raman laser

A Raman laser is a specific type of laser in which the fundamental light-amplification mechanism is stimulated Raman scattering.

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Raman scattering

In physics, Raman scattering or the Raman effect is the inelastic scattering of photons by matter, meaning that there is both an exchange of energy and a change in the light's direction.

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Refractive index

In optics, the refractive index (or refraction index) of an optical medium is a dimensionless number that gives the indication of the light bending ability of that medium.

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Sandia National Laboratories

Sandia National Laboratories (SNL), also known as Sandia, is one of three research and development laboratories of the United States Department of Energy's National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA).

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Self-phase modulation

Self-phase modulation (SPM) is a nonlinear optical effect of light–matter interaction. Silicon photonics and Self-phase modulation are nonlinear optics.

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Semiconductor

A semiconductor is a material that has an electrical conductivity value falling between that of a conductor, such as copper, and an insulator, such as glass.

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Semiconductor device fabrication

Semiconductor device fabrication is the process used to manufacture semiconductor devices, typically integrated circuits (ICs) such as computer processors, microcontrollers, and memory chips (such as NAND flash and DRAM).

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Silicon

Silicon is a chemical element; it has symbol Si and atomic number 14.

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Silicon dioxide

Silicon dioxide, also known as silica, is an oxide of silicon with the chemical formula, commonly found in nature as quartz.

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Silicon nitride

Silicon nitride is a chemical compound of the elements silicon and nitrogen.

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Silicon on insulator

In semiconductor manufacturing, silicon on insulator (SOI) technology is fabrication of silicon semiconductor devices in a layered silicon–insulator–silicon substrate, to reduce parasitic capacitance within the device, thereby improving performance.

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Single-mode optical fiber

In fiber-optic communication, a single-mode optical fiber (SMF), also known as fundamental- or mono-mode, is an optical fiber designed to carry only a single mode of light - the transverse mode.

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Slot-waveguide

A slot-waveguide is an optical waveguide that guides strongly confined light in a subwavelength-scale low refractive index region by total internal reflection. Silicon photonics and slot-waveguide are photonics.

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Soliton

In mathematics and physics, a soliton is a nonlinear, self-reinforcing, localized wave packet that is strongly stable, in that it preserves its shape while propagating freely, at constant velocity, and recovers it even after collisions with other such localized wave packets.

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Soliton (optics)

In optics, the term soliton is used to refer to any optical field that does not change during propagation because of a delicate balance between nonlinear and dispersive effects in the medium. Silicon photonics and soliton (optics) are nonlinear optics.

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Spectral density

In signal processing, the power spectrum S_(f) of a continuous time signal x(t) describes the distribution of power into frequency components f composing that signal.

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Spontaneous parametric down-conversion

Spontaneous parametric down-conversion (also known as SPDC, parametric fluorescence or parametric scattering) is a nonlinear instant optical process that converts one photon of higher energy (namely, a pump photon) into a pair of photons (namely, a signal photon, and an idler photon) of lower energy, in accordance with the law of conservation of energy and law of conservation of momentum.

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Springer Science+Business Media, commonly known as Springer, is a German multinational publishing company of books, e-books and peer-reviewed journals in science, humanities, technical and medical (STM) publishing.

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Startup company

A startup or start-up is a company or project undertaken by an entrepreneur to seek, develop, and validate a scalable business model.

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Total internal reflection

In physics, total internal reflection (TIR) is the phenomenon in which waves arriving at the interface (boundary) from one medium to another (e.g., from water to air) are not refracted into the second ("external") medium, but completely reflected back into the first ("internal") medium.

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Transparency and translucency

In the field of optics, transparency (also called pellucidity or diaphaneity) is the physical property of allowing light to pass through the material without appreciable scattering of light.

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Two-photon absorption

In atomic physics, two-photon absorption (TPA or 2PA), also called two-photon excitation or non-linear absorption, is the simultaneous absorption of two photons of identical or different frequencies in order to excite an atom or a molecule from one state (usually the ground state), via a virtual energy level, to a higher energy, most commonly an excited electronic state. Silicon photonics and two-photon absorption are nonlinear optics.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Silicon_photonics

Also known as Applications of silicon photonics, Silicon nanophotonics, Silicon photonic.

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