I acknowledge the edX UBCx Phot1x Silicon Photonics Design, Fabrication and Data Analysis course, which is supported by the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada (NSERC) Silicon Electronic-Photonic Integrated Circuits (SiEPIC) Program. The devices were fabricated by Richard Bojko at the University of Washington Washington Nanofabrication Facility, part of the National Science Foundation’s National Nanotechnology Infrastructure Network (NNIN), and Cameron Horvath at Applied Nanotools, Inc. Enxiao Luan performed the measurements at The University of British Columbia. We acknowledge Lumerical Solutions, Inc., Mathworks, Mentor Graphics, Python, and KLayout for the design software.