Silicon and silicon nitride photonic circuits for spectroscopic sensing on-a-chip [Invited]

Ananth Z. Subramanian; Eva Ryckeboer; Ashim Dhakal; Frédéric Peyskens; Aditya Malik; Bart Kuyken; Haolan Zhao; Shibnath Pathak; Alfonso Ruocco; Andreas De Groote; Pieter Wuytens; Daan Martens; Francois Leo; Weiqiang Xie; Utsav Deepak Dave; Muhammad Muneeb; Pol Van Dorpe; Joris Van Campenhout; Wim Bogaerts; Peter Bienstman; Nicolas Le Thomas; Dries Van Thourhout; Zeger Hens; Gunther Roelkens; Roel Baets

doi:10.1364/prj.3.000b47

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