Silicon nitride in silicon photonics

DJ Blumenthal, R Heideman… - Proceedings of the …, 2018 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
The silicon nitride (Si 3 N 4) planar waveguide platform has enabled a broad class of low-
loss planar-integrated devices and chip-scale solutions that benefit from transparency over a …

Arrayed waveguide grating spectrometers for astronomical applications: new results

P Gatkine, S Veilleux, Y Hu, J Bland-Hawthorn… - Optics express, 2017 - opg.optica.org
One promising application of photonics to astronomical instrumentation is the miniaturization
of near-infrared (NIR) spectrometers for large ground-and space-based astronomical …

Ultra-high quality factor planar Si3N4 ring resonators on Si substrates

MC Tien, JF Bauters, MJR Heck, DT Spencer… - Optics express, 2011 - opg.optica.org
We demonstrate planar Si_3N_4 ring resonators with ultra-high quality factors (Q) of 19
million, 28 million, and 7 million at 1060 nm, 1310 nm, and 1550 nm, respectively. By …

Ultra-low loss Si3N4 waveguides with low nonlinearity and high power handling capability

MC Tien, JF Bauters, MJR Heck, DJ Blumenthal… - Optics express, 2010 - opg.optica.org
We investigate the nonlinearity of ultra-low loss Si_3N_4-core and SiO_2-cladding
rectangular waveguides. The nonlinearity is modeled using Maxwell's wave equation with a …

Dual SOA-MZI Wavelength Converters Based on III-V Hybrid Integration on a -Scale Si Platform

D Fitsios, T Alexoudi, GT Kanellos… - IEEE Photonics …, 2014 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
We report on the simultaneous wavelength conversion operation of a dual-element
semiconductor optical amplifier-Mach–Zehnder interferometer (SOA-MZI) array hybridly …

A Thermally Tunable 1 × 4 Channel Wavelength Demultiplexer Designed on a Low-Loss Si3N4 Waveguide Platform

MS Hai, A Leinse, T Veenstra, O Liboiron-Ladouceur - Photonics, 2015 - mdpi.com
A thermally tunable 1× 4 channel optical demultiplexer was designed using an ultra low-loss
Si3N4 (propagation loss~ 3.1 dB/m) waveguide. The demultiplexer has three 2× 2 Mach …

Development of high-resolution arrayed waveguide grating spectrometers for astronomical applications: first results

P Gatkine, S Veilleux, Y Hu, T Zhu… - Advances in Optical …, 2016 - spiedigitallibrary.org
Astrophotonics is the next-generation approach that provides the means to miniaturize near-
infrared (NIR) spectrometers for upcoming large telescopes and make them more robust and …

[PDF][PDF] Unitary and dissipative trapped-ion entanglement using integrated optics

M Malinowski - 2021 - research-collection.ethz.ch
Trapped atomic ions are currently among the most advanced platforms for quantum
information processing. While the individual elements of a universal quantum computer …

A scalable space–time multi-plane optical interconnection network using energy-efficient enabling technologies

O Liboiron-Ladouceur, PG Raponi… - Journal of Optical …, 2011 - opg.optica.org
This paper presents an energy-efficient multi-plane optical interconnection network to
interconnect servers in a data center. The novel architecture uses the time domain to …

TriPleX™ platform technology for photonic integration: Applications from UV through NIR to IR

A Leinse, RG Heideman, EJ Klein… - 2011 ICO …, 2011 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
The CMOS compatible fabrication equipment, the transparency from UV to IR and the
capability of batch processing make the TriPleX™ waveguide platform very suitable for a …