Gamma radiation effects in amorphous silicon and silicon nitride photonic devices

Q Du, Y Huang, O Ogbuu, W Zhang, J Li, V Singh… - Optics letters, 2017 - opg.optica.org
Understanding radiation damage is of significant importance for devices operating in
radiation-harsh environments. In this Letter, we present a systematic study on gamma …

Space-qualifying silicon photonic modulators and circuits

D Mao, L Chang, H Lee, AW Yu, BA Maruca… - Science …, 2024 - science.org
Reducing the form factor while retaining the radiation hardness and performance matrix is
the goal of avionics. While a compromise between a transistor's size and its radiation …

Assessing radiation hardness of silicon photonic sensors

Z Ahmed, LT Cumberland, NN Klimov, IM Pazos… - Scientific reports, 2018 - nature.com
In recent years, silicon photonic platforms have undergone rapid maturation enabling not
only optical communication but complex scientific experiments ranging from sensors …

[HTML][HTML] Brillouin and Kerr nonlinearities of a low-index silicon oxynitride platform

K Ye, Y Klaver, OA Jimenez Gordillo, R Botter… - APL Photonics, 2023 - pubs.aip.org
Nonlinear optical effects including stimulated Brillouin scattering (SBS) and four-wave
mixing (FWM) play an important role in microwave photonics, optical frequency combs, and …

Real-time, in situ probing of gamma radiation damage with packaged integrated photonic chips

Q Du, J Michon, B Li, D Kita, D Ma, H Zuo, S Yu… - Photonics …, 2020 - opg.optica.org
Integrated photonics is poised to become a mainstream solution for high-speed data
communications and sensing in harsh radiation environments, such as outer space, high …

Effects of Gamma and Proton Irradiation on 100 Gbps Silicon Modulators

N Zhao, P Yin, C Qiu, Y Ding, D Bi, L Zhang… - ACS …, 2025 - ACS Publications
We investigated the impact of γ-rays and proton irradiation on the performance of high-
speed modulators by exposing four-channel 4× 100 Gbps silicon transmitter chips to both of …

Gamma radiation effects on passive silicon photonic waveguides using phase sensitive methods

N Boynton, M Gehl, C Dallo, A Pomerene… - Optics …, 2020 - opg.optica.org
Passive silicon photonic waveguides are exposed to gamma radiation to understand how
the performance of silicon photonic integrated circuits is affected in harsh environments such …

High energy irradiation effects on silicon photonic passive devices

Y Zhou, D Bi, S Wang, L Wu, Y Huang, E Zhang… - Optics …, 2022 - opg.optica.org
In this work, the radiation responses of silicon photonic passive devices built in silicon-on-
insulator (SOI) technology are investigated through high energy neutron and^ 60Co γ-ray …

Radiation-hardened silicon photonic passive devices on a 3 µm waveguide platform under gamma and proton irradiation

Y Zhou, D Lv, D Bi, L Wu, R Wang, S Ma, EX Zhang… - Optics …, 2022 - opg.optica.org
Silicon photonics is considered to be an ideal solution as optical interconnect in radiation
environments. Our previous study has demonstrated experimentally that radiation responses …

Radiation effect on silicon photonics chips for space quantum key distribution

ZY Chen, YF Liu, C Chen, Y Gao, H Zheng - Optics Express, 2024 - opg.optica.org
Quantum communication satellites have potential for applications in future quantum
networks. Photonics integrated chips, due to their compact and lightweight nature, are well …