{"title":"Ge-on-Si APD in Commercial Foundry Process for Near-Infrared Sensing","authors":"J. Rollinson, A. Chowdhury, R. Karlicek, M. Hella","doi":"10.1109/SiPhotonics55903.2023.10141909","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/SiPhotonics55903.2023.10141909","url":null,"abstract":"We demonstrate a method for improving Ge-on-Si avalanche photodiode (APD) sensitivity by varying the geometry of the charge and multiplication regions to achieve lower noise current. The APD's, fabricated in a commercial silicon photonic process, demonstrate an improved signal-to-noise ratio (SNR) at 940nm wavelength.","PeriodicalId":105710,"journal":{"name":"2023 IEEE Silicon Photonics Conference (SiPhotonics)","volume":"91 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"121105212","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Mauricio Tosi, Saket Kaushal, Alejandro Fasciszewki, P. Costanzo‐Caso, J. Azaña
{"title":"Ultra-compact High-speed Passive NOT Gate in SOI","authors":"Mauricio Tosi, Saket Kaushal, Alejandro Fasciszewki, P. Costanzo‐Caso, J. Azaña","doi":"10.1109/SiPhotonics55903.2023.10141927","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/SiPhotonics55903.2023.10141927","url":null,"abstract":"We propose a phase-only modulation-based spiral waveguide Bragg grating (WBG) design for the implementation of a fully-passive and linear NOT gate. In experiments, we demonstrate inversion of a 50-Gbps NRZ-OOK data stream using a spiral WBG with an ultra-compact footprint of 0.25 mm2.","PeriodicalId":105710,"journal":{"name":"2023 IEEE Silicon Photonics Conference (SiPhotonics)","volume":"117 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"124840592","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"‘Ultraslow-Light’ and Flipping Property of the Crisscrossed-assisted Coupled-Ring Reflector","authors":"A. Gutierrez, B. Dingel, W. J. Sy, C. D. Bennett","doi":"10.1109/SiPhotonics55903.2023.10141905","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/SiPhotonics55903.2023.10141905","url":null,"abstract":"We report two new behaviors of the recently reported crisscross-coupled microring resonator structure, namely (i) ‘ultraslow light’ propagation under symmetric parameter conditions, and (ii) a “flipping property” in the group delay under asymmetric parameter conditions. These properties can be utilized in numerous optical-based applications.","PeriodicalId":105710,"journal":{"name":"2023 IEEE Silicon Photonics Conference (SiPhotonics)","volume":"8 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"125113626","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Accelerating quantum technologies with programmable integrated photonics","authors":"M. Dong","doi":"10.1109/SiPhotonics55903.2023.10141920","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/SiPhotonics55903.2023.10141920","url":null,"abstract":"Programmable photonic integrated circuits (PICs) offer practical solutions to the scaling requirements of quantum technologies for quantum communications and distributed quantum computing. Here we present recent advances in piezoelectrically-actuated PICs demonstrating large-scale optical switching and linear-optic operations for the realization of quantum network systems.","PeriodicalId":105710,"journal":{"name":"2023 IEEE Silicon Photonics Conference (SiPhotonics)","volume":"59 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"115037405","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Weiwei Zhang, M. Ebert, Ke Li, Bigeng Chen, Xingzhao Yan, H. Du, M. Banakar, Dehn T. Tran, C. Littlejohns, A. Scofield, Guomin Yu, R. Shafiiha, A. Zilkie, G. Reed, D. Thomson
{"title":"The superlinear carrier absorption enhanced silicon MOS micro-ring modulator","authors":"Weiwei Zhang, M. Ebert, Ke Li, Bigeng Chen, Xingzhao Yan, H. Du, M. Banakar, Dehn T. Tran, C. Littlejohns, A. Scofield, Guomin Yu, R. Shafiiha, A. Zilkie, G. Reed, D. Thomson","doi":"10.1109/SiPhotonics55903.2023.10141899","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/SiPhotonics55903.2023.10141899","url":null,"abstract":"We demonstrate superlinear plasma absorption effects in silicon MOS micro-ring modulators, which have been harnessed to enhance the optical modulation depth. Operating speed up to 100 Gbaud with a of BER <1e-6 is achieved.","PeriodicalId":105710,"journal":{"name":"2023 IEEE Silicon Photonics Conference (SiPhotonics)","volume":"7 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"133871342","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Yuan Yuan, Yiwei Peng, Zhihong Huang, J. Hulme, S. Cheung, W. Sorin, D. Liang, Marco Fiorentino, R. Beausoleil
{"title":"An O-Band All-Silicon Microring Avalanche Photodiode with > 38 GHz RF Bandwidth","authors":"Yuan Yuan, Yiwei Peng, Zhihong Huang, J. Hulme, S. Cheung, W. Sorin, D. Liang, Marco Fiorentino, R. Beausoleil","doi":"10.1109/SiPhotonics55903.2023.10141950","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/SiPhotonics55903.2023.10141950","url":null,"abstract":"We report an O-band all-Si microring avalanche photodiode exhibiting a low dark current of ~2 nA just before the breakdown, a responsivity of up to ~ 0.73 A/W, and a high RF bandwidth of > 38 GHz.","PeriodicalId":105710,"journal":{"name":"2023 IEEE Silicon Photonics Conference (SiPhotonics)","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"131032305","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Photonic Interconnect Based Neural Network Simulator","authors":"Andy Wolff, Kyle Shiflett, Avinash Karanth","doi":"10.1109/SiPhotonics55903.2023.10141962","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/SiPhotonics55903.2023.10141962","url":null,"abstract":"This paper introduces a photonic interconnect simulator that supports architecture simulation and design on a large enough scale to facilitate design-space exploration of optical neural networks on a C++ implementation with PyTorch integration.","PeriodicalId":105710,"journal":{"name":"2023 IEEE Silicon Photonics Conference (SiPhotonics)","volume":"13 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"128825177","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
W. Hsu, N. Nujhat, Benjamin Kupp, J. F. Conley, Alan X. Wang
{"title":"Electrically Tunable Silicon Microring Resonator with 589 pm/V Wavelength Tunability","authors":"W. Hsu, N. Nujhat, Benjamin Kupp, J. F. Conley, Alan X. Wang","doi":"10.1109/SiPhotonics55903.2023.10141968","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/SiPhotonics55903.2023.10141968","url":null,"abstract":"We demonstrated an electrically tunable silicon microring resonator integrated with high mobility titanium-doped indium oxide/hafnium oxide/silicon MOS capacitor. Narrowing the microring waveguide width to 300 nm achieved an extremely high electro-optic wavelength tunability of 589 pm/V with a high-quality factor of 5200.","PeriodicalId":105710,"journal":{"name":"2023 IEEE Silicon Photonics Conference (SiPhotonics)","volume":"104 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"115721999","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
J. H. Mendoza-Castro, A. Vorobev, S. Iadanza, T. Oliveira, B. Lendl, L. O’Faolain, M. Grande
{"title":"Compact side-coupled Silicon Nitride Photonic Crystal Nanobeam Cavity for refractive index sensing","authors":"J. H. Mendoza-Castro, A. Vorobev, S. Iadanza, T. Oliveira, B. Lendl, L. O’Faolain, M. Grande","doi":"10.1109/SiPhotonics55903.2023.10141917","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/SiPhotonics55903.2023.10141917","url":null,"abstract":"In this work, we present a compact high-Q factor S<inf>3</inf>N<inf>4</inf>-based Photonic Crystal Nanobeam Cavity (PhCNC) that achieves calculated Q-factors above 10<sup>6</sup>(experimental 10<sup>4</sup>) in case over a wide range of upper-cladding refractive index values (1 to 1.45), angle sidewalls (0°, 5° and 7°) and stick widths. In addition, a high sensitivity (~175nm/RIU) for liquids is demonstrated.","PeriodicalId":105710,"journal":{"name":"2023 IEEE Silicon Photonics Conference (SiPhotonics)","volume":"142 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"132309920","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}