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Showing 1 to 20 of 103 for “"Silicon photonics"”.
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Characterisation of silicon photonics devices
Silicon based integrated circuits has been dominating the electronics technology industry in the last few decades. As the telecommunications and the computing industry slowly converges together, the need for a material to build photonics integrated circuits (PIC) that can be cost-effective and be …
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Polarization manipulation in silicon photonics
Silicon photonics is moving fast toward industrialization. It satisfies the increasing demand for higher speed, larger bandwidth communication. Thus it has a wide range of applications including high-performance computing, data center, telecom etc.. However, the on-chip (waveguide) and off-chip …
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Silicon-photonics for VLSI systems
… the demands required by future memory systems. Silicon-photonic optical links overcome the fundamental tradeoffs of electrical wires; dense wavelength division multiplexing (DWDM) - where multiple data channels share a single waveguide or fiber to greatly extend bandwidth density - and the …
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Lightwave circuits for integrated Silicon Photonics
… and technological advancements in integrated silicon photonics circuits aimed at developing an All-On-Chip device for quantum photonics experiments. The work has been carried out within the framework of project SiQuro, where the Silicon-On-Insulator platform is chosen to integrate all the …
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Second order nonlinearities in silicon photonics
… thesis, second order optical nonlinearities in silicon waveguides are studied. At the beginning, the strained silicon platform is investigated in detail. In recent years, second order nonlinearities have been demonstrated on this platform. However, the origin of these nonlinearities was not …
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Integrated erbium lasers in silicon photonics
… erbium-doped aluminum oxide lasers on a silicon photonics platform. A key achievement in this work is a scalable laser design for high output power and ultra-narrow linewidth performance. Using a novel wavelength-insensitive design, a CMOS compatible waveguide structure is proposed to …
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Automated wavelength recovery for silicon photonics
… requirements are pushing the limits of on-chip silicon CMOS transistors and off-chip VCSELs technology. The major limitation of the current systems is the lack of ability to enable more than a single channel on a single wire/fiber. Silicon photonics, offering a solution on the same platform with …
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Silicon Photonics for High-Performance Interconnection Networks
We assert in the course of this work that silicon photonics has the potential to be a key disruptive technology in computing and communication industries. The enduring pursuit of performance gains in computing, combined with stringent power constraints, has fostered the ever-growing computational …
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Toward accurate and large-scale silicon photonics
Silicon photonics, emerging from the interface of silicon technology and photonic technology, is expected to inherit the incredible integration ability of silicon technology that has boomed the microelectronic industry for half a century, as well as the unparalleled communication capability of …
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Low loss polysilicon waveguides for silicon photonics
Thesis (M.S.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Materials Science and Engineering, 1997.
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Fiber to waveguide couplers for silicon photonics
As silicon photonics enters mainstream technology, we find ourselves in need of methods to seamlessly transfer light between the optical fibers of global scale telecommunications networks and the on-chip waveguides used for signal routing and processing in local computing networks. Connecting these …
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High index contrast platform for silicon photonics
This thesis focuses on silicon-based high index contrast (HIC) photonics. In addition to mature fiber optics or low index contrast (LIC) platform, which is often referred to as Planar Lightwave Cirrcuit (PLC) or Silica Optical Bench (SiOB), the use of HIC platform has been attracting considerable …
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Accelerating Artificial Intelligence with Programmable Silicon Photonics
… in the fabrication of large-scale integrated silicon photonics have sparked interest in optical systems that process information at high speeds with ultra-low energy consumption. Photonic systems, which have historically been used for optical telecommunications, have recently been demonstrated …
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Ge-on-Si laser for silicon photonics
… for photonic integration. Importance of Ge in photonics has grown and through techniques developed in our group we demonstrated low density of dislocations (<1x109cm-2) and point defects Ge growth for photonic devices. The focus of this document will be exclusively on Ge light emitters. Ge is …
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Integrated Silicon Photonics Switches for Transparent Optical Networks
L'abstract è presente nell'allegato / the abstract is in the attachment
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Advanced silicon photonics for microwave frequency down-conversion
Microwave photonics is broadly defined as the study of optical devices operating in the microwave to millimeter wave spectrum, and interest in this field is continually driven by the need for higher electrical frequencies and larger signal bandwidths. However, electronic systems designed to meet …
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Novel materials and optical waveguide systems for silicon photonics
… of Si-based waveguides, and more particularly Silicon on Insulator (SOI) waveguides and Slot SOI waveguides. This work was carried out within the European project PHOLOGIC. The general objective of the PHOLOGIC project is to explore the mass-manufacturing feasibility of Silicon Nanocrystals …
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Modeling silicon photonics process variations using ring resonator devices
Silicon photonics is an emerging industry that aims to implement photonic systems using extensions to traditional CMOS process technologies. With silicon technologies being used to transmit light, there exists a need by designers to understand the performance of standard silicon photonic elements …
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Rare-earth doped aluminum oxide lasers for silicon photonics
… for undoped films. The development of active photonics components has been realized by use of rare-earth metals as dopants. By co-sputtering aluminum and erbium targets, Er3+ dopants at concentrations on the order of 1.0x1020 cm-3 have been added to the Al2O3 host medium. Resulting Er3+:Al2O3 …
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