Characterization of an electrically induced refractive index change in a hydrogenated amorphous silicon multistack waveguide

Author

Rao, Sandro ; Coppola, Giuseppe ; Gioffrè, Mariano ; Summonte, Caterina ; Corte, Francesco G Della

Author_Institution

Dept. of Inf. Sci., Math., Electron. & Transportations (DIMET), Univ. Mediterranea di Reggio Calabria, Reggio Calabria, Italy

fYear

2011

fDate

14-16 Sept. 2011

Firstpage

302

Lastpage

304

Abstract

Electrically induced phase modulation is characterized for the first time in a waveguide-integrated Fabry-Perot (FP) resonating cavity based both on an index- and conductivity high-contrast amorphous silicon/amorphous silicon carbide (a-Si:H/a-SiC:H) multistack.

Keywords

Fabry-Perot resonators; amorphous semiconductors; elemental semiconductors; hydrogen; integrated optics; optical conductivity; optical modulation; optical multilayers; optical waveguides; phase modulation; refractive index; silicon; silicon compounds; wide band gap semiconductors; Si:H-SiC:H; electrically induced phase modulation; electrically induced refractive index; high-contrast amorphous silicon-amorphous silicon carbide multistack; hydrogenated amorphous silicon multistack waveguide; optical conductivity; waveguide-integrated Fabry-Perot resonating cavity; Cavity resonators; Electrooptic modulators; Electrooptical waveguides; Optics; Silicon;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Group IV Photonics (GFP), 2011 8th IEEE International Conference on

Conference_Location

London

ISSN

1949-2081

Print_ISBN

978-1-4244-8338-9

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/GROUP4.2011.6053797

Filename

6053797