Integrated semiconductor lasers on silicon are one of the most crucial devices to enable low-cost silicon photonic integrated circuits for high-bandwidth optic communications and interconnects. While optical amplifiers and lasers are typically realized in III-V waveguide structures, it is beneficial to have an integration approach which allows flexible and efficient coupling of light between III-V...
Micromachines, Vol. 13, Pages 1925: Thermo Optic Phase Shifter with Interleaved Suspended
Design for Power Efficiency and Speed Adjustment Micromachines doi: 10.3390/mi13111925 Authors: Feng Gao Wu Xie James You Sian Tan Chew Ping Leong Chao Li Xianshu Luo Guo Qiang Lo Conventional thermo optic devices—which can be broadly categorized to that with and without a thermal isolation trench—typically...
Visible and near-infrared spectrum photonic integrated circuits are quickly becoming a key technology to address the scaling challenges in quantum information and biosensing. Thus far, integrated photonic platforms in this spectral range have lacked integrated photodetectors. Here, we report the first silicon nitride-on-silicon waveguide photodetectors that are monolithically integrated in a visib...
Beam-forming in the visible spectrum has important applications in, for example, fluorescence microscopy, quantum information processing, and holographic displays. For infrared light, photonic integrated circuit 16 (PIC) beam-scanners are often optical phased arrays (OPAs) that steer a light beam using wavelength tuning and/or phase shifters. For visible light, OPAs are significantly more challeng...
Integrated high-efficiency waveguide photodetectors operating in the visible spectrum are indispensable to a growing number of photonic-integrated circuit (PIC) applications. Prior developments are either incompatible with PIC integration or limited to discrete operating wavelengths. Here, we demonstrate silicon nitride-on-silicon (SiN-on-Si), broadband, high-efficiency waveguide photodiodes reali...
Low-loss broadband fiber-to-chip coupling is currently challenging for visible-light photonic-integrated circuits (PICs) that need both high confinement waveguides for high-density integration and a minimum feature size above foundry lithographical limit. Here, we demonstrate bi-layer silicon nitride (SiN) edge couplers that have ≤ 4 dB/facet coupling loss with the Nufern S405-XP fiber over a broa...
Machine learning methods have revolutionized the discovery process of new molecules and materials. However, the intensive training process of neural networks for molecules with ever increasing complexity has resulted in exponential growth in computation cost, leading to long simulation time and high energy consumption. Photonic chip technology offers an alternative platform for implementing neural...
We demonstrate power-efficient, thermo-optic, silicon nitride waveguide phase shifters for blue, green, and yellow wavelengths. The phase shifters operated with low power consumption due to a suspended structure and multi-pass waveguide design. The devices were fabricated on 200-mm silicon wafers using deep ultraviolet lithography as part of an active visible-light integrated photonics platform. T...