D. Thomson, G. Reed, F. Gardes, G. Mashanovich, S. Howe
{"title":"Introducing Carrier Localisation in Total Internal Reflection Optical Switches to Restrict Carrier Diffusion in the Guiding Layer","authors":"D. Thomson, G. Reed, F. Gardes, G. Mashanovich, S. Howe","doi":"10.1109/GROUP4.2006.1708171","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/GROUP4.2006.1708171","url":null,"abstract":"Previous total internal reflection based switches have suffered from the diffusion of carriers in the guiding layer leading to inefficient reflection and carrier injection. In our proposed device this problem is overcome by using a SiO2 barrier","PeriodicalId":342599,"journal":{"name":"3rd IEEE International Conference on Group IV Photonics, 2006.","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2006-10-09","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"126110017","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":"Temperature-Dependent Carrier Recombination Processes in Nanocrystalline Si/SiO2 Multi-Layers Studied by Time-Resolved and Time-Integrated Photoluminescence","authors":"S. Choi, Sung Kim, Y. Park, K. Kim","doi":"10.1109/GROUP4.2006.1708177","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/GROUP4.2006.1708177","url":null,"abstract":"In this study, ion beam sputtering deposition (IBSD) has been used to fabricate 50-period SiO2/SiOx multilayers, which have been subsequently annealed to form Si nanocrystals (NCs) in the SiOx layer. We report interesting correlation of temperature-dependent integrated PL intensity with the PL lifetime at each x value (NC size) and discuss possible mechanisms to explain the experimental results","PeriodicalId":342599,"journal":{"name":"3rd IEEE International Conference on Group IV Photonics, 2006.","volume":"42 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2006-10-09","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"127574145","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":"High-Q Whispering Gallery Modes in Wet Etched Silica Microdisk Resonators Containing Silicon Nanocrystals","authors":"R. Kekatpure, M. Brongersma","doi":"10.1109/GROUP4.2006.1708152","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/GROUP4.2006.1708152","url":null,"abstract":"We demonstrate coupling of room temperature photoluminescence (PL) emission from silicon nanocrystals (nc-Si) embedded in silicon-rich silicon oxide (SRSO) to whispering gallery modes (WGMs) of 10 mum radius microdisk resonators. The resonators were fabricated by wet chemical etching of circular patterns defined by electron beam lithography and display very smooth edges. We observe nearly degenerate counter-propagating WGMs from the microdisks and measure quality factors of Q>3500 for the fundamental mode at 850 nm - limited by the absorption loss from the nanocrystals","PeriodicalId":342599,"journal":{"name":"3rd IEEE International Conference on Group IV Photonics, 2006.","volume":"83 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2006-10-09","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"117107330","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}
I. Hsieh, X. Chen, J. Dadap, N. Panoiu, R. Osgood, S. Mcnab, Y. Vlasov
{"title":"Self-Phase Modulation of Femtosecond Pulses in Photonic Wire Waveguides","authors":"I. Hsieh, X. Chen, J. Dadap, N. Panoiu, R. Osgood, S. Mcnab, Y. Vlasov","doi":"10.1109/GROUP4.2006.1708224","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/GROUP4.2006.1708224","url":null,"abstract":"We use femtosecond pulses propagating inside a submicron cross-section Si photonic-wire waveguide to demonstrate strong interaction between self-phase modulation and dispersion effects, and provide comparison to a full theoretical analysis","PeriodicalId":342599,"journal":{"name":"3rd IEEE International Conference on Group IV Photonics, 2006.","volume":"43 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2006-10-09","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"122028252","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":"Photoluminescence Mechanism of Si Nanocrystals Embedded in SiO2 Matrix","authors":"Xiaoxin Wang, B. Cheng, Jinzhong Yu, Qiming Wang","doi":"10.1109/GROUP4.2006.1708198","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/GROUP4.2006.1708198","url":null,"abstract":"The interface state recombination effect from the quantum confinement effect in PL signals from the SRO material system was studied. The results show that the larger the size of Si NCs, the more beneficial for the interface state recombination process to surpass the quantum confinement process, in support of Qin's model","PeriodicalId":342599,"journal":{"name":"3rd IEEE International Conference on Group IV Photonics, 2006.","volume":"22 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2006-10-09","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"117255618","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}
S.J. Specter, T. Lyszczarz, M. Geis, D. Lennon, J. Yoon, M. Grein, R. Schulein, F. Gan, F. Kaertner
{"title":"Low-Power, High-Speed Mach-Zehnder Modulator in Silicon","authors":"S.J. Specter, T. Lyszczarz, M. Geis, D. Lennon, J. Yoon, M. Grein, R. Schulein, F. Gan, F. Kaertner","doi":"10.1109/GROUP4.2006.1708200","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/GROUP4.2006.1708200","url":null,"abstract":"A high speed diode-based optical modulator has been fabricated in silicon. This device achieves an extremely low VpiL of 0.02 V-cm from 10-100 MHz. Modulation depths of 30% have been achieved at an input power of 100 mW at 5 GHz","PeriodicalId":342599,"journal":{"name":"3rd IEEE International Conference on Group IV Photonics, 2006.","volume":"49 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2006-10-09","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"127687078","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":"Monolithic, Bufferless AlGaSb Emitters on Si based on Interfacial Misfit Arrays","authors":"D. Huffaker","doi":"10.1109/GROUP4.2006.1708216","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/GROUP4.2006.1708216","url":null,"abstract":"In this paper a monolithic, bufferless approach to III-V devices on Si substrates based on a self-assembled array of 90deg interfacial misfits (IMF) is discussed. This growth method, based on III-Sb, is fundamentally different from previously reported approaches since the strain energy due to the 13% lattice mismatch is fully and immediately relieved at the III-V interface rather than tetragonal distortion followed by defect formation as in III-As on Si","PeriodicalId":342599,"journal":{"name":"3rd IEEE International Conference on Group IV Photonics, 2006.","volume":"50 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2006-10-09","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"127785684","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}
P. Cheben, B. Lamontagne, E. Post, S. Janz, D. Xu, A. Delâge
{"title":"Out-of-Plane Total Internal Reflection Coupling Mirrors in Silicon-on-Insulator Ridge Waveguides","authors":"P. Cheben, B. Lamontagne, E. Post, S. Janz, D. Xu, A. Delâge","doi":"10.1109/GROUP4.2006.1708194","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/GROUP4.2006.1708194","url":null,"abstract":"We describe the fabrication and performance of out-of-plane coupling mirrors in silicon-on-insulator (SOI) ridge waveguides. The mirrors consisted of a 45deg facet formed using directional CAIBE etching through a lithographically defined window","PeriodicalId":342599,"journal":{"name":"3rd IEEE International Conference on Group IV Photonics, 2006.","volume":"21 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2006-10-09","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"131216985","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":"Active Microring Resonator Devices in Silicon-on-Insulator","authors":"R. Soref","doi":"10.1109/GROUP4.2006.1708150","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/GROUP4.2006.1708150","url":null,"abstract":"Recent results from several laboratories are surveyed. The topics include SOI-based ultrafast electrooptical modulators, NtimesN routing switches, tunable filters-and-add/drops, Raman lasers and amplifiers, electrically pumped group IV lasers, optically pumped Er:SiO2-overclad slotted rings, and a variety of nonlinear optical devices","PeriodicalId":342599,"journal":{"name":"3rd IEEE International Conference on Group IV Photonics, 2006.","volume":"28 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2006-10-09","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"134589007","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}
M. Schnarrenberger, L. Zimmermann, T. Mitze, K. Voigt, J. Bruns, K. Petermann
{"title":"Concept for an Alternative Solder-Free Flip-Chip Technique on SOI using Black-Silicon","authors":"M. Schnarrenberger, L. Zimmermann, T. Mitze, K. Voigt, J. Bruns, K. Petermann","doi":"10.1109/GROUP4.2006.1708209","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/GROUP4.2006.1708209","url":null,"abstract":"Black-silicon regions are defined on an SOI board and covered with an adhesion layer. The contacts of to be mounted devices are pushed towards these regions, to establish a mechanical, electrical, and thermal contact","PeriodicalId":342599,"journal":{"name":"3rd IEEE International Conference on Group IV Photonics, 2006.","volume":"28 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2006-10-09","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"125141340","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}