Silicon photonic phase shifters and their applications: A review

H Sun, Q Qiao, Q Guan, G Zhou - Micromachines, 2022 - mdpi.com
With the development of silicon photonics, dense photonic integrated circuits play a
significant role in applications such as light detection and ranging systems, photonic …

Silicon photonic switch fabrics: Technology and architecture

BG Lee, N Dupuis - Journal of Lightwave Technology, 2018 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Photonic switching technologies show potential for transforming communication networks
across diverse markets from long-haul to short-reach distance scales due to their large …

Low-loss composite photonic platform based on 2D semiconductor monolayers

I Datta, SH Chae, GR Bhatt, MA Tadayon, B Li, Y Yu… - Nature …, 2020 - nature.com
The optical properties of transition metal dichalcogenides (TMDs) are known to change
dramatically with doping near their excitonic resonances. However, little is known about the …

Optimization of thermo-optic phase-shifter design and mitigation of thermal crosstalk on the SOI platform

M Jacques, A Samani, E El-Fiky, D Patel, Z Xing… - Optics express, 2019 - opg.optica.org
We first optimize the design and compare the performance of thermo-optic phase-shifters
based on TiN metal and N_++ doped silicon, in the same SOI process. The designs don't …

Ge-on-Si and Ge-on-SOI thermo-optic phase shifters for the mid-infrared

A Malik, S Dwivedi, L Van Landschoot, M Muneeb… - Optics express, 2014 - opg.optica.org
Germanium-on-silicon thermo-optic phase shifters are demonstrated in the 5 μm wavelength
range. Basic phase shifters require 700 mW of power for a 2π phase shift. The required …

Inverse design of color routers in CMOS image sensors: Toward minimizing interpixel crosstalk

S Lee, J Hong, J Kang, J Park, J Lim, T Lee… - …, 2024 - degruyter.com
Over the past decade, significant advancements in high-resolution imaging technology have
been driven by the miniaturization of pixels within image sensors. However, this reduction in …

Ultra-low loss hybrid ITO/Si thermo-optic phase shifter with optimized power consumption

J Parra, J Hurtado, A Griol, P Sanchis - Optics Express, 2020 - opg.optica.org
Typically, materials with large optical losses such as metals are used as microheaters for
silicon based thermo-optic phase shifters. Consequently, the heater must be placed far from …

Ionizing radiation effects in silicon photonics modulators

M Lalović, C Scarcella, A Bulling… - … on Nuclear Science, 2022 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Silicon photonics (SiPh) shows considerable potential as a radiation-hard technology for
building the optical data transmission links for future high-energy physics (HEP) experiments …

Aluminum nitride electro-optic phase shifter for backend integration on silicon

S Zhu, GQ Lo - Optics express, 2016 - opg.optica.org
An AlN electro-optic phase shifter with a parallel plate capacitor structure is fabricated on Si
using the back-end complementary metal-oxide-semiconductor technology, which is …

Optically Transparent and Thermally Efficient 2D MoS2 Heaters Integrated with Silicon Microring Resonators

D Oz, N Suleymanov, B Minkovich… - ACS …, 2023 - ACS Publications
Thermal tuning of the optical refractive index in the waveguides to control light phase
accumulation is essential in photonic-integrated systems and applications. In silicon …