Title :
High capacity, photo-trimmable athermal silicon waveguides
Author :
Raghunathan, Vivek ; Grillanda, Stefano ; Canciamilla, Antonio ; Singh, Vivek ; Morichetti, Francesco ; Michel, Jurgen ; Agarwal, Anuradha M. ; Melloni, Andrea ; Kimerling, Lionel C.
Author_Institution :
Microphotonics Center, Massachusetts Inst. of Technol., Cambridge, MA, USA
Abstract :
Sandwiching a photosensitive layer of As2S3 between Si core and polymer cladding enables trimming of athermal waveguides. Moreover, athermal operation enables the compensation of thermal effects related to Si nonlinearity with respect to standard waveguides.
Keywords :
arsenic compounds; claddings; integrated optics; nonlinear optics; optical polymers; optical waveguides; silicon-on-insulator; Si-As2S3; athermal operation; high capacity phototrimmable athermal silicon waveguides; nonlinearity; photosensitive layer; polymer cladding; sandwiching; standard waveguides; thermal effects; Optical filters; Optical ring resonators; Optical waveguides; Polymers; Silicon; Wavelength measurement;
Conference_Titel :
Group IV Photonics (GFP), 2012 IEEE 9th International Conference on
Conference_Location :
San Diego, CA
Print_ISBN :
978-1-4577-0826-8
DOI :
10.1109/GROUP4.2012.6324081
