Measurements of a Silicon Photonic ROADM (Project Report CIAN2-3-Y3)

A multi-university partnership led by UCSD collaborated with Sandia National Labs in an NSF-funded silicon photonics multi-project wafer (MPW) project. This is a report of the ROADM +VOA (reconfigurable optical add drop multiplexer + variable optical attenuator) device made using silicon photonics, including passive and doped silicon waveguides and metalization.

Accomplishments in Integrated Nonlinear Optics using Silicon Microring CROWs (Project Report 0642603-Y5)

This NSF-funded project is a five-year (60 months) CAREER (Faculty Early Career Development Program) unified research and education development program. The project’s focus is the science, engineering and applications of low-power (milliwatt class) nonlinear optics using CROWs. Coupled resonator optical waveguides (CROWs) are linear sequences of micro-resonators fabricated on a chip that guide light from one end of the chain to the other by nearest-neighbor coupling.

Design Improvements of a Silicon Photonic ROADM (Project Report CIAN2-1-Y4)

This was a project “Silicon Photonics Device Manufacturing and Test” under the re-organized Thrust 2 “Subsystem Integration and Silicon Nanophotonics” of an NSF-funded Center. This is a report of the 2nd generation ROADM (reconfigurable optical add drop multiplexer) device made using silicon photonics, including passive and doped silicon waveguides and metalization.

Silicon Photonic Cross-bar Switching and Wavelength Conversion in a WDM Network Testbed (Project Report CIAN2-3-Y1)

The goal of this research was to design, fabricate and test chip-scale opto-electronic network systems for access and data networks.

Rapidly Tunable Microring Filters for Optical Add-Drop (Project Report CIAN2-1-Y5)

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.

Integrated Nonlinear Photonics Using CROWs (Project Report 0642603-Y1)

This NSF-funded project [0642603] is a five-year (60 months) CAREER (Faculty Early Career Development Program) unified research and education development program. The full title of this project is “CAREER: Chip-scale low-power nonlinear optics using coupled resonators and CROWs”. The focus of this project is a study of the waveguiding principles and applications of a novel type of integrated photonics waveguide, the Coupled Resonator Optical Waveguide (CROW), in nonlinear optics at the milliwatt-scale power level, which is relevant for optical communications and signal processing.

Silicon Photonic Reconfigurable Optical Add-Drop Module Design (Project Report CIAN2-3-Y2)

Reports of a project “Silicon Photonics and Manufacturing” under the Thrust 2 “Subsystem Integration and Silicon Nanophotonics” of an NSF-funded Centre for Integrated Access Networks.