Silicon photonics circuit design: methods, tools and challenges

W Bogaerts, L Chrostowski - Laser & Photonics Reviews, 2018 - Wiley Online Library
Silicon Photonics technology is rapidly maturing as a platform for larger‐scale photonic
circuits. As a result, the associated design methodologies are also evolving from component …

Types of nanostructures

M Nasrollahzadeh, Z Issaabadi, M Sajjadi… - Interface science and …, 2019 - Elsevier
Nanostructures play a significant role in the advancement of scientific and engineering
technologies at the nanoscale. Over the past few years, nanostructures have elicited much …

Design challenges in silicon photonics

W Bogaerts, M Fiers, P Dumon - IEEE Journal of Selected …, 2013 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Silicon photonics is rapidly gaining maturity in high-bandwidth optical communication, with
applications in datacom, access networks, and I/O for bandwidth-intensive electronics. Also …

Comparison of AWGs and echelle gratings for wavelength division multiplexing on silicon-on-insulator

S Pathak, P Dumon, D Van Thourhout… - IEEE Photonics …, 2014 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
We compare the performance (insertion loss and crosstalk) of silicon-based arrayed
waveguide gratings (AWGs) and echelle gratings for different channel spacings. For high …

Backscattering in silicon microring resonators: a quantitative analysis

A Li, T Van Vaerenbergh, P De Heyn… - Laser & Photonics …, 2016 - Wiley Online Library
Silicon microring resonators very often exhibit resonance splitting due to backscattering.
This effect is hard to quantitatively and predicatively model. This paper presents a …

CMOS-compatible broadband co-propagative stationary Fourier transform spectrometer integrated on a silicon nitride photonics platform

X Nie, E Ryckeboer, G Roelkens, R Baets - Optics express, 2017 - opg.optica.org
We demonstrate a novel type of Fourier Transform Spectrometer (FTS) that can be realized
with CMOS compatible fabrication techniques. This FTS contains no moving components …

High Q factor chalcogenide ring resonators for cavity-enhanced MIR spectroscopic sensing

P Ma, DY Choi, Y Yu, Z Yang, K Vu, T Nguyen… - Optics express, 2015 - opg.optica.org
We report the characteristics of high Q factor chalcogenide ring resonators designed for
sensing in the mid-infrared (MIR). The resonators consisted of an exposed Ge_11 …

Photonics design tool for advanced CMOS nodes

L Alloatti, M Wade, V Stojanovic, M Popovic… - IET …, 2015 - Wiley Online Library
Recently, the authors have demonstrated large‐scale integrated systems with several
million transistors and hundreds of photonic elements. Yielding such large‐scale integrated …

Quantitative analysis of TM lateral leakage in foundry fabricated silicon rib waveguides

AP Hope, TG Nguyen, A Mitchell… - IEEE Photonics …, 2015 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
We show that thin, shallow ridge, silicon-on-insulator waveguides exhibiting a lateral
leakage behavior can be designed and fabricated using a standard silicon photonic foundry …

Methods and apparatus for automated design of semiconductor photonic devices

L Alloatti - US Patent 10,331,842, 2019 - Google Patents
A photonic design automation (PDA) tool to facilitate design of semiconductor photonic
devices is described. In one example, the PDA tool includes a process design library …