High-Speed, Low-Power and Mid-IR Silicon Photonics Applications

• Main Author: Alloatti, Luca (auth)
• Format: Electronic Book Chapter
• Language: English
• Published: KIT Scientific Publishing 2013
• Series: Karlsruhe Series in Photonics and Communications / Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Institute of Photonics and Quantum Electronics (IPQ)
• Subjects: Technology: general issues; optical absorption; high-speed modulators; mid-IR; Silicon photonics; liquid crystals
• Online Access: DOAB: download the publication; DOAB: description of the publication

In this book, the first high-speed silicon-organic hybrid (SOH) modulator is demonstrated by exploiting a highly-nonlinear polymer cladding and a silicon waveguide. By using a liquid crystal cladding instead, an ultra-low power phase shifter is obtained. A third type of device is proposed for achiev...