The goal of this project was to design silicon photonic components for a microchip-scale spectrometer. Future earth science and space missions may benefit from spectroscopic measurements made using compact, energy efficient and inexpensive instruments.
This was a project under the Thrust 2 “Subsystem Integration and Silicon Nanophotonics” of the NSF-funded Center. The goal of this research was to design, fabricate and test microchip-scale silicon photonic components for optical WDM (wavelength division multiplexed) add/drop functionality in access and data networks. This chip was intended for use in a campus ring network.
Strain engineering in III-V photonic components through structuration of SiNx films