Article
Engineering, Multidisciplinary
Ting Li, Pei Yuan, Shufeng Li, Ke Li, Lianqing Zhu
Summary: Fiber Bragg grating (FBG) interrogator is a scientific instrument that indirectly monitors physical quantities by detecting the center wavelength of FBG. An arrayed waveguide grating (AWG), a fundamental part of the FBG interrogation system, is designed and fabricated for a photonic integrated FBG interrogation system with 12 channels, a 3 dB bandwidth of 2.23 nm, insertion loss of less than 5 dB, and crosstalk of -16.64 dB. The AWG has a wavelength resolution of 8 pm and a wavelength accuracy of 10.59 pm in the dynamic range of 0.8 nm, making it suitable for FBG interrogation systems.
MEASUREMENT SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY
(2023)
Article
Nanoscience & Nanotechnology
Shufeng Li, Pei Yuan, Ting Li, Ke Li, Lianqing Zhu
Summary: This article presents a 15-channel 400 GHz AWG based on silicon on insulator (SOI) substrate, which has good spectral characteristics and can be used as a spectral device in the fiber Bragg grating (FBG) interrogation system.
PHOTONICS AND NANOSTRUCTURES-FUNDAMENTALS AND APPLICATIONS
(2023)
Article
Engineering, Electrical & Electronic
Tao Ma, Shaohui Liu, Yongsheng Tian, Heng Liu, Fang Wang
Summary: A graphene-hBN-silicon hybrid plasmonic rib waveguide is designed for refractive index sensing, achieving a high FOM value by optimizing size parameters and showing remarkable propagation performance peaks. The sensing structure demonstrates good sensitivity for homogeneous and surface sensing, making it suitable for ultra-compact on-chip micro-nano photonic biochemical sensing systems.
IEEE SENSORS JOURNAL
(2021)
Article
Engineering, Electrical & Electronic
Salih Yanikgonul, Xianshu Luo, Guo-Qiang Lo
Summary: Recently, efforts have been made to develop monolithically integrated avalanche photodiodes (APDs) for visible and near-infrared (NIR) wavelengths. However, the fabrication process of these detectors in commercial photonic foundries often requires custom integration flow due to design rule violations. In this study, waveguide-integrated APDs operating at 850 nm were successfully fabricated on a commercial silicon nitride-on-silicon-on-insulator (SiN-on-SOI) photonics platform without any process modifications. The performance of these devices was comparable or even superior to other integrated APDs operating in the NIR wavelengths.
JOURNAL OF LIGHTWAVE TECHNOLOGY
(2023)
Article
Optics
Zijie Dai, Eryi Pan, Xuefeng Chen, Xiaoxian Song, Haiting Zhang, Ying Liang
Summary: Researchers propose and numerically simulate an ultra-compact optical quantum router using a Mach-Zehnder interferometer and waveguide tapers on a silicon-on-insulator platform. The interferometer operates at a center wavelength of 1550 nm and achieves high polarizations visibilities of 99.65% for TE and 98.80% for TM polarizations. By utilizing phase compensation and self-image principles, the length of the waveguide tapers is significantly reduced while maintaining high transmission rates above 95% for both polarizations. Furthermore, by utilizing anisotropic metamaterials, ultra-compact polarization beam splitters with a small footprint and high transmission rates are achieved.
Article
Nanoscience & Nanotechnology
Taesu Ryu, Moohyuk Kim, Yongsop Hwang, Myung-Ki Kim, Jin-Kyu Yang
Summary: The study demonstrated high-efficiency metalenses based on silicon-on-insulator that can focus incident beams with high efficiency. The metalenses with a Si/ma-N disk array showed strong focusing capabilities at telecommunication wavelengths.
Article
Optics
Muhammad Shemyal Nisar, Liangjun Lu
Summary: This paper presents a grating coupler for polarization-insensitive coupling, with low polarization-dependent loss for efficient light signal transmission in a specific wavelength range. The design is based on a 500 nm SOI platform and features a simple and compact 1D structure.
Article
Engineering, Electrical & Electronic
Chun-Hu Chen, Chia-Wei Huang, Nai-Wen Cheng, Ren-Huai Jhang, Tzu-Hsiang Yen, Yung- Hung
Summary: In this study, highly oxidized graphene oxides (GO) were fabricated to reduce optical bulk absorption and achieve low-loss GO/silicon hybrid optical waveguides. The high oxidation degrees of GO were confirmed, and their promising optical properties for low-loss heterogeneous integration on silicon-on-insulator were demonstrated.
IEEE JOURNAL OF SELECTED TOPICS IN QUANTUM ELECTRONICS
(2022)
Article
Optics
Ying Xue, Jie Li, Yi Wang, Ke Xu, Zengshan Xing, Kam Sing Wong, Hon Ki Tsang, Kei May Lau
Summary: Efficient III-V distributed feedback (DFB) lasers grown on (001) silicon-on-insulator (SOI) wafers through selective hetero-epitaxy enable efficient coupling between III-V lasers and Si waveguides, providing strong optical confinement. This work demonstrates a step towards fully integrated Si photonics, laying the foundation for wafer-scale integration.
LASER & PHOTONICS REVIEWS
(2023)
Article
Optics
Weike Zhao, Xiaolin Yi, Yingying Peng, Long Zhang, Haitao Chen, Daoxin Dai
Summary: This study uses the anisotropy of one-/two-dimensional subwavelength grating structures to achieve high-performance silicon multimode waveguide crossings. The proposed crossing exhibits compact footprints, low excess losses, and low intermode crosstalk.
LASER & PHOTONICS REVIEWS
(2022)
Article
Engineering, Electrical & Electronic
Jun Zou, Lingfeng Li, Yuan Zhuang, Changhui Wang, Ming Zhang, Zichun Le, Xuyang Wang, Gaozhe Cai, Shilun Feng, Jian-Jun He
Summary: This study presents a polarization-insensitive micro-spectrometer based on a (N + 3) x (N + 3) arrayed waveguide grating (AWG) on a silicon-on-insulator (SOI) platform. The micro-spectrometer achieves enhanced channel wavelength spacing and channel number enlargement through time division multiplexing. Experimental results demonstrate the good performance of the micro-spectrometer, making it promising for applications in FBG sensor readout units and optical waveguide sensor systems.
JOURNAL OF LIGHTWAVE TECHNOLOGY
(2023)
Article
Engineering, Electrical & Electronic
Hao Sun, Bruno Taglietti, Yue Wang, Lawrence R. Chen
Summary: Bragg gratings (BGs) are widely used in microwave photonic signal processing and systems due to their customizable amplitude and phase responses. Waveguide BGs (WBGs) are compact and easily integrated with other components to build MWP systems. Subwavelength grating (SWG) waveguides and passive devices in silicon-on-insulator (SOI) have enabled the development of breakthrough devices based on anisotropic metamaterials.
JOURNAL OF LIGHTWAVE TECHNOLOGY
(2022)
Article
Chemistry, Physical
Zicheng Lu, Hong Zhou, Yi Wang, Yanxiang Liu, Tie Li
Summary: Silicon nanowire field-effect transistor (SiNW-FET) sensors have the capability of rapid, real-time, and label-free detection of charged molecules with high sensitivity and selectivity. By a combination of horizontal and vertical control, a novel fabrication approach for silicon nanowires has been developed, resulting in improved device uniformity and lower current fluctuation. The new approach shows a more accurate bio-analysis application of the silicon nanowire sensor.
Article
Engineering, Electrical & Electronic
Yisbel E. Marin, Arijit Bera, Matteo Cherchi, Timo Aalto
Summary: We used a hydrogen annealing based post-processing technique to improve the sidewall roughness of 3 µm thick SOI waveguides and achieved ultra-high-Q factors on racetrack resonators by reducing propagation loss. Racetracks were designed using a combination of rib waveguides and strip-waveguide-based Euler bends. We measured intrinsic quality factors of 14 x 10^6 and 10.7 x 10^6 for racetracks with footprints of approximately 5.5 mm^2 and 1.48 mm^2, respectively. The estimated propagation loss for the rib waveguides was reduced to 2.7 dB/m, representing a 3 times reduction compared to previously treated SOI rib waveguides. The post-processing technique significantly reduced sidewall roughness without altering the geometry of the waveguides, making it an attractive solution for applications requiring ultra-low losses.
JOURNAL OF LIGHTWAVE TECHNOLOGY
(2023)
Article
Optics
Geun Ho Ahn, Alexander D. White, Hyungjin Kim, Naoki Higashitarumizu, Felix M. Mayor, Jason F. Herrmann, Wentao Jiang, Kevin K. S. Multani, Amir H. Safavi-Naeini, Ali Javey, Jelena Vuckovic
Summary: Many attractive photonics platforms lack integrated photodetectors due to material incompatibilities and lack of process scalability. This research shows that tellurium can be evaporated onto photonic chips using a thermal evaporation and deposition technique, resulting in air-stable, high-speed, ultrawide-band photodetectors. These photodetectors demonstrate detection from visible to short-wave infrared, a bandwidth of over 40 GHz, and platform-independent scalable integration with various photonic structures.