Title :
Novel micro-heater structure for low-power and fast photonic reconfiguration
Author :
Atabaki, Amir H. ; Eftekhar, Ali A. ; Yegnanarayanan, Siva ; Adibi, Ali
Author_Institution :
Sch. of Electr. & Comput. Eng., Georgia Inst. of Technol., Atlanta, GA, USA
Abstract :
A novel microheater structure integrated over small microdisks in silicon-on-insulator is proposed with less than 100 nanosecond reconfiguration time using pulsed-excitation. Power consumption of the devices are shown to be 40% less than conventional microheaters.
Keywords :
Delay; Energy consumption; Integrated optics; Optical losses; Optical materials; Optical resonators; Silicon on insulator technology; Slabs; Temperature distribution; Thermal conductivity;
Conference_Titel :
Lasers and Electro-Optics (CLEO) and Quantum Electronics and Laser Science Conference (QELS), 2010 Conference on
Conference_Location :
San Jose, CA, USA
Print_ISBN :
978-1-55752-890-2
Electronic_ISBN :
978-1-55752-890-2
