Talk Abstract
Submicrometer-wavelength silicon photonics spanning the visible through near-infrared (VIS–NIR) is emerging as a path to miniaturized, scalable optical microsystems for biophotonics, sensing, quantum technologies, microdisplays, and potentially new data-communication approaches. Accelerating progress across these domains calls for a versatile, foundry-fabricated platform spanning this >1-octave range with high-performance components—reducing customization, supporting innovation that transfers across applications, and enabling wafer-scale manufacturing. In this talk, I will present our foundry-fabricated silicon photonics platform operating from 400–980 nm. It provides advanced passive functionality across three silicon nitride waveguide layers and integrates silicon photodetectors, thermo-optic switches, hybrid-integrated lasers, MEMS beam scanners, in-situ thermal trimming for post-fabrication variation compensation, and integrated temperature and strain sensors for closed-loop circuit stabilization and control.