Recent advances in metamaterial integrated photonics

Since the invention of the silicon subwavelength grating waveguide in 2006, subwavelength metamaterial engineering has become an essential design tool in silicon photonics. Employing well-established nanometer-scale semiconductor manufacturing techniques to create metamaterials in optical waveguides has allowed unprecedented control of the flow of light in photonic chips. This is achieved through fine-tuning of fundamental optical properties …