Wavelength-division-multiplexing-based electronic-photonic integrated circuits for high-performance data processing and transportation

Author(s):  
Chenghao Feng ◽  
Zhoufeng Ying ◽  
Zheng Zhao ◽  
Jiaqi Gu ◽  
David Pan ◽  
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2013 ◽  
Vol 1538 ◽  
pp. 363-369
Author(s):  
Di Liang ◽  
Géza Kurczveil ◽  
Marco Fiorentino ◽  
Sudharsanan Srinivasan ◽  
David A. Fattal ◽  
...  

ABSTRACTHybrid silicon laser is a promising solution to enable high-performance light source on large-scale, silicon-based photonic integrated circuits (PICs). As a compact laser cavity design, hybrid microring lasers are attractive for their intrinsic advantages of small footprint, low power consumption and flexibility in wavelength division multiplexing (WDM), etc. Here we review recent progress in unidirectional microring lasers and device thermal management. Unidirectional emission is achieved by integrating a passive reflector that feeds laser emission back into laser cavity to introduce extra unidirectional gain. Up to 4X of device heating reduction is simulated by adding a metal thermal shunt to the laser to “short” heat to the silicon substrate through buried oxide layer (BOX) in the silicon-on-insulator (SOI) substrate. Obvious device heating reduction is also observed in experiment.


2006 ◽  
Vol 2006 ◽  
pp. 1-6 ◽  
Author(s):  
Chen-Yang Liu ◽  
Lien-Wen Chen

Photonic crystals (PCs) have many potential applications because of their ability to control light-wave propagation and because PC-based waveguides may be integrated into optical circuits. We propose a novel tunable PC channel drop filter based on nematic liquid crystals and investigate its properties numerically by using the finite-difference time-domain (FDTD) method. The refractive indices of liquid crystals can be actively modulated after infiltrating nematic liquid crystals into the microcavity in PC waveguides with square lattices. Then we can control light propagation in a PC waveguide. We analyze theQ-factors and resonance frequencies of a tunable PC channel drop filter by considering various indices modulation of liquid crystals. The novel component can be used as wavelength division multiplexing in photonic integrated circuits.


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