High-Speed, Low-Power and Mid-IR Silicon Photonics Applications : Dissertationsschrift

ISBN-13: 9783731500568 / Angielski / Miękka / 2013 / 116 str.

Luca Alloatti

Opis

In this book, the first high-speed silicon-organic hybrid (SOH) modulator is demonstrated by exploiting a highly-nonlinear polymer cladding and a silicon waveguide. By using a liquid crystal cladding instead, an ultra-low power phase shifter is obtained. A third type of device is proposed for achieving three-wave mixing on the silicon-organic hybrid (SOH) platform. Finally, new physical constants which describe the optical absorption in charge accumulation/inversion layers in silicon are determined.