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Showing 1 to 20 of 61 for “"Silicon photonic"”.
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Advanced silicon photonic modulators
… and optical schemes used in Mach-Zehnder (MZ) silicon plasma dispersion effect modulators are explored. A rib waveguide reverse biased silicon diode modulator is designed, tested and found to operate at speeds up to 13 GHz with a V"L of 1.2 Vcm. MOS capacitor modulator designs are investigated …
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Integrated silicon photonic circuit simulation
Integrated silicon photonics is an exciting emerging technology, utilizing the high bandwidth and high timing resolution that optics provides in many applications. To maximize the benefits of these optical-electrical systems, tight integration of the electronic and photonic components are …
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Integrated silicon photonic two-dimensional grating couplers
Silicon (Si) photonics has proven its importance in the recent years for enabling the integration of photonic components, using available complementary metal oxide semiconductor (CMOS) fabrication flows. The simultaneous realization of electronics and photonics in the same manufacturing platform …
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Graphene Modulators for Silicon Photonic Optical Links
… electrical interconnect at high frequencies. Si photonics technology offers a cost-effective solution for fabricating integrated photonic circuits by combining electronic and photonic components in the same circuit by using existing CMOS technology. This thesis focuses on the development of a …
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Millivolt silicon photonic modulators for cryogenic applications
… This thesis deals with the development of silicon photonic modulators operating at cryogenic temperatures and capable of modulating an optical carrier with millivol-level driving signals. We show cryogenic operation of CMOS photonic resonant modulators in the forward bias regime with high …
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Chemical and biological modification of porous silicon photonic crystals.
Porous silicon (PSi) photonic crystals have aroused research interest as label-free chemical and biological sensing transducers owing to the ease of fabrication, high quality optics and a sensitive optical response to changes in efractive index. A major impediment to using PSi materials as sensors …
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Optimization of silicon photonic devices for polarization diversity applications
… optical sub-systems integrate with guided wave photonic devices with two-dimensional confinement and high contrast between the core and cladding. The modes present in such waveguides are not purely of the TE or TM type. They are hybrid in nature, where all six components of the magnetic and …
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Particle-enhanced biomolecule detection using silicon photonic microring resonators
… has developed a detection platform based on silicon photonic microring resonators which is capable of making sensitive measurements of proteins, as well as other biomolecules, in complex matrices. The following chapters present the work I have completed towards the development of …
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Advanced materials, process, and designs for silicon photonic integration
… with the decreasing gate line width. Currently, silicon based optical interconnect is widely pursued as the most promising technology to replace Cu in microprocessor chips. Silicon optical interconnect is based on integrated silicon nanophotonic technologies. It can leverage the large scale and …
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Towards integrated silicon photonic architectures for quantum information processing
Silicon photonics is a highly-promising platform for on-chip quantum information processing. Linear optical quantum computing architectures necessitate the implementation of integrated single photon sources, passive and active optics, and single photon detectors. This thesis presents the …
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Enhancing the performance of silicon photonic biosensors for clinical applications
Silicon photonic biosensors have the potential to transform medical diagnostics and healthcare delivery. Hundreds of these nano-scale sensors can be integrated onto a single millimeter-sized silicon substrate and fabricated in foundries to achieve economies of scale similar to modern day computer …
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Surface modification of silicon photonic microring resonators for chemical sensing
Silicon photonic microring resonators have emerged as a promising technology for the sensitive detection of biological macromolecules, including proteins and nucleic acids. These bulk property detectors rely on the changes in the effective refractive index of the sensing region, eliminating the …
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Advanced silicon photonic microcavities for routing, detection and lasing applications
The theoretical background of microcavities for photonic applications has been extensively investigated in theory over the past two decades. These structures provide the ability to filter wavelength, support high-Q modes and enhance intensity within the cavities while maintaining a small device …
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Silicon photonic microring resonators for the development of cancer protein biomarker assays
… dissertation presents the development of silicon photonic microring resonator technology in the Ryan Bailey research laboratory towards multiplexed cancer protein biomarker measurements. Microring resonator sensing technology relies upon changes in refractive index that induce a resonance …
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Second Harmonic Generation in Silicon Photonic Crystal Resonators for Quantum Optic Applications
A possible way of achieving all-photonic classical and quantum logic gates is with dynamically coupled photonic crystal cavities. A silicon architecture that has octave-separated resonances with high quality factor, low mode volume, high nonlinear coupling is implemented in the form of a one …
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Resonant Wavelength Tuning and CMOS Circuits for Silicon Photonic Transmitters with Microring Modulators
… (MRMs) have emerged as a promising solution for silicon photonic optical transmitters, offering compact size, high bandwidth density, and energy-efficient operation compared to traditional Mach-Zehnder modulators (MZMs). MRMs are particularly advantageous for wavelength-division multiplexing …
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Multiplexed protein biomarker analysis on silicon photonic microring resonators: translation towards clinical diagnostics
… thesis were developed on a platform based on silicon photonic microring resonator technology. This sensing technology has high potential for clinical diagnostics utility, as sensor chips of this platform can be cheaply manufactured through a highly scalable process. Moreover, continuous …
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Advances in molecular-based diagnostics and biomolecular interaction screening using silicon photonic microring resonators
… biomarker panels meaningful predictive power. Silicon photonic microring resonators are a promising class of sensor well suited to biomarker quantitation due to their sensitivity, scalability and flexibility, enabling quantitative multiplexed analysis. Their sensing modality arises from …
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