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Gunther Roelkens

Gunther Roelkens

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Electronics and Electrical Engineering
Belgium
2023

D-Index & Metrics

Electronics and Electrical Engineering

D-Index
77
Citations
20968
World Ranking
621
National Ranking
13

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2023 - Research.com Electronics and Electrical Engineering in Belgium Leader Award
  • 2022 - Research.com Electronics and Electrical Engineering in Belgium Leader Award

Overview

Gunther Roelkens is affiliated with Ghent University in Belgium and has a significant publication record in the fields of engineering and physics, with particular focus on electrical and electronic engineering as well as atomic and molecular physics and optics.

Their research spans several main topics, including:

  • Photonic and Optical Devices
  • Advanced Fiber Laser Technologies
  • Semiconductor Lasers and Optical Devices
  • Advanced Photonic Communication Systems
  • Optical Network Technologies
  • Photorefractive and Nonlinear Optics
  • Photonic Crystals and Applications

Gunther Roelkens has published papers in various notable venues. Frequent publication venues include:

  • Optics Express
  • arXiv (Cornell University)
  • Journal of Lightwave Technology
  • Conference on Lasers and Electro-Optics
  • IEEE Journal of Selected Topics in Quantum Electronics

Recent papers featuring their research include:

  • "Assessment on the Achievable Throughput of Multi-Band ITU-T G.652.D Fiber Transmission Systems," 2020, Journal of Lightwave Technology
  • "Hybrid and heterogeneous photonic integration," 2021, APL Photonics
  • "Heterogeneous III-V on silicon nitride amplifiers and lasers via microtransfer printing," 2020, Optica
  • "III/V-on-lithium niobate amplifiers and lasers," 2021, Optica
  • "Micro-Transfer Printing for Heterogeneous Si Photonic Integrated Circuits," 2022, IEEE Journal of Selected Topics in Quantum Electronics

Collaboration is a key aspect of their work, with frequent co-authors including:

  • Bart Kuyken
  • Stijn Poelman
  • Stijn Cuyvers
  • Joris Van Campenhout
  • Kasper Van Gasse

Best Publications

  • An introduction to InP-based generic integration technology

    Meint Smit;Xaveer Leijtens;Huub Ambrosius;Erwin Bente

  • III‐V/silicon photonics for on‐chip and intra‐chip optical interconnects

    Günther Roelkens;Liu Liu;Di Liang;Richard Jones

  • High-efficiency fiber-to-chip grating couplers realized using an advanced CMOS-compatible Silicon-On-Insulator platform

    D. Vermeulen;S. Selvaraja;P. Verheyen;G. Lepage

  • Compact and Highly Efficient Grating Couplers Between Optical Fiber and Nanophotonic Waveguides

    F. Van Laere;G. Roelkens;M. Ayre;J. Schrauwen

  • An ultra-small, low power all-optical flip-flop memory on a silicon chip

    Liu Liu;Liu Liu;Rajesh Kumar;Koen Huybrechts;Thijs Spuesens

  • Hybrid Integrated Platforms for Silicon Photonics

    Di Liang;Gunther Roelkens;Roel Baets;John E. Bowers

  • High efficiency Silicon-on-Insulator grating coupler based on a poly-Silicon overlay

    Günther Roelkens;Dries Van Thourhout;Roel Baets

  • Expanding the Silicon Photonics Portfolio With Silicon Nitride Photonic Integrated Circuits

    Abdul Rahim;Eva Ryckeboer;Ananth Z. Subramanian;Stephane Clemmen

  • Assessment on the Achievable Throughput of Multi-Band ITU-T G.652.D Fiber Transmission Systems

    Alessio Ferrari;Antonio Napoli;Johannes K. Fischer;Nelson Costa

  • Laser emission and photodetection in an InP/InGaAsP layer integrated on and coupled to a Silicon-on-Insulator waveguide circuit.

    G Gunther Roelkens;Van D Thourhout;Rgf Roel Baets;R Richard Nötzel

  • An octave-spanning mid-infrared frequency comb generated in a silicon nanophotonic wire waveguide.

    Bart Kuyken;Takuro Ideguchi;Simon Holzner;Ming Yan

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

    Ananth Z. Subramanian;Eva M.P. Ryckeboer;Ashim Dhakal;Frédéric Peyskens

  • III-V/Si photonics by die-to-wafer bonding

    G. Roelkens;J. Van Campenhout;J. Brouckaert;D. Van Thourhout

  • High efficiency grating coupler between silicon-on-insulator waveguides and perfectly vertical optical fibers.

    Günther Roelkens;Dries Van Thourhout;Roel Baets

  • Optical switching at 1.55 μm in silicon racetrack resonators using phase change materials

    Miquel Rudé;Josselin Pello;Robert E. Simpson;Johann Osmond

  • Demonstration of a heterogeneously integrated III-V/SOI single wavelength tunable laser

    Shahram Keyvaninia;Gunther Roelkens;Dries Van Thourhout;Christophe Jany

  • GeSn/Ge heterostructure short-wave infrared photodetectors on silicon

    Alban Gassenq;F Gencarelli;J Van Campenhout;Y Shimura

  • High efficiency diffractive grating couplers for interfacing a single mode optical fiber with a nanophotonic silicon-on-insulator waveguide circuit

    G. Roelkens;D. Vermeulen;D. Van Thourhout;R. Baets

  • Ultra-thin DVS-BCB adhesive bonding of III-V wafers, dies and multiple dies to a patterned silicon-on-insulator substrate

    S Keyvaninia;M Muhammad Muneeb;S Stankovic;van Pj René Veldhoven

  • Novel Light Source Integration Approaches for Silicon Photonics

    Zhechao Wang;Amin Abbasi;Utsav Deepak Dave;Andreas De Groote

  • An ultra-small, low-power all-optical flip-flop memory on a silicon chip

    Rajesh Kumar;Koen Huybrechts;Liu Liu;Thijs Spuessens

Frequent Co-Authors

Roel Baets
Roel Baets Ghent University
Dries Van Thourhout
Dries Van Thourhout Ghent University
Geert Morthier
Geert Morthier Ghent University
Wim Bogaerts
Wim Bogaerts Ghent University
MK Meint Smit
MK Meint Smit Eindhoven University of Technology
Pieter Dumon
Pieter Dumon Luceda Photonics
J-M. Fedeli
J-M. Fedeli CEA LETI

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