Title :
Vertically integrated optical clock on adhesively bonded silicon nanomembrane
Author :
Yang Zhang ; Xiaochuan Xu ; Kwong, David ; Covey, John ; Hosseini, Amir ; Chen, Ray T.
Author_Institution :
Dept. of Electr. & Comput. Eng., Univ. of Texas at Austin, Austin, TX, USA
Abstract :
A vertically integrated grating-coupled 1-to-32 H-tree optical clock is experimentally demonstrated on adhesively bonded silicon nanomembrane. This optical clock has an excess loss of 2.2dB, a uniformity of 0.72dB, and a broad transmission spectrum.
Keywords :
diffraction gratings; integrated optics; light transmission; nanophotonics; optical couplers; optical design techniques; optical fabrication; silicon; Si; adhesively bonded silicon nanomembrane; broad transmission spectrum; loss 0.72 dB; loss 2.2 dB; vertically integrated grating-H-tree optical clock coupling; vertically integrated optical clock; Clocks; Couplers; Optical device fabrication; Optical losses; Optical waveguides; Propagation losses; Silicon; Optical clock; silicon nanomembrane; vertical integration;
Conference_Titel :
Optical Interconnects Conference, 2014 IEEE
Conference_Location :
San Diego, CA
Print_ISBN :
978-1-4799-2467-7
DOI :
10.1109/OIC.2014.6886065
