Silicon photonic MEMS: exploiting mechanics at the nanoscale to enhance photonic integrated circuits
Quack, Niels; Sattari, Hamed; Takabayashi, Alain Y.; Zhang, Yu; Edinger, Pierre; Errando-Herranz, Carlos; Gylfason, Kristinn B.; Wang, Xiaojing; Niklaus, Frank; Jezzini, Moises A.; Hwang, How Yuan; O'Brien, Peter; Porcel, Marco A. G.; Lerma Arce, Cristina; Kumar, Saurav; Abasahl, Banafsheh; Verheyen, Peter; Bogaerts, Wim
Date:
2019
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Citation:
Quack, N., Sattari, H., Takabayashi, A. Y., Zhang, Y., Edinger, P., Errando-Herranz, C., Gylfason, K. B., Wang, X., Niklaus, F., Jezzini, M. A., Hwang, H. Y., O’Brien, P., Porcel, M. A. G., Lerma Arce, C., Kumar, S., Abasahl, B., Verheyen, P. and Bogaerts, W. (2019) 'Silicon photonic MEMS: exploiting mechanics at the nanoscale to enhance photonic integrated circuits', Optical Fiber Communications Conference and Exhibition (OFC 2019), San Diego, California, 3-7 March. Available at: https://www.osapublishing.org/abstract.cfm?URI=OFC-2019-M2D.3 (Accessed: 27 May 2019)
Abstract:
With the maturing and the increasing complexity of Silicon Photonics technology, novel avenues are pursued to reduce power consumption and to provide enhanced functionality: exploiting mechanical movement in advanced Silicon Photonic Integrated Circuits provides a promising path to access a strong modulation of the effective index and to low power consumption by employing mechanically stable and thus non-volatile states. In this paper, we will discuss recent achievements in the development of MEMS enabled systems in Silicon Photonics and outline the roadmap towards reconfigurable general Photonic Integrated Circuits.
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