Abstract:
A ring optical modulator includes a SOI substrate, including at least first and second top silicon layers, and a silicon-based ring resonator formed on the SOI substrate. The silicon-based ring resonator includes first and second top silicon layers, a thin dielectric gate layer disposed between the top silicon layers, first and second electric contacts, and first rib-type waveguide and ring-shape rib-type waveguide formed on the second top silicon layer. The thin dielectric layer includes a first side in contact with the first top silicon layer and a second side in contact with the second top silicon layer. With electric signals applied on the electric contacts, free carriers accumulate, deplete or invert within the top silicon layers on the first and second sides of the thin dielectric gate layer beneath the ring-shape rib-type waveguide, simultaneously, and a refractive index of the ring-shape rib-type waveguide confining optical fields is modulated.
Abstract:
A Mach-Zehnder modulator includes: a support having a principal surface, the principal surface having a first area, a second area, and a third area; a first structure including first and second semiconductor mesas disposed on the first and second areas, respectively; a second structure including a first strip-shaped semiconductor region on the second area, a second strip-shaped semiconductor region on the third area, and a first strip-shaped void and a second strip-shaped void defining the first and second strip-shaped semiconductor regions; a first electrode disposed on the first semiconductor mesa in the first area, the first strip-shaped semiconductor region of the second structure being disposed between the support and the second semiconductor mesa of the first structure in the second area, and the first and second semiconductor mesas, and the first and second strip-shaped semiconductor regions being arranged to constitute a first arm waveguide of the Mach-Zehnder modulator.
Abstract:
Provided is a substrate-type optical waveguide, having a phase modulation function, (i) in which a reflection of a signal to be inputted via a coplanar line is restrained and (ii) which consumes less power. In a case where the substrate-type optical waveguide is partitioned into a plurality of sections by cross sections orthogonal to a direction in which light propagates through a core, a local capacitance in each of the plurality of sections gradually increases as a distance from an entrance end surface increases.
Abstract:
A Mach-Zehnder modulator includes: a support having a principal surface, the principal surface having a first area, a second area, and a third area; a first structure including first and second semiconductor mesas disposed on the first and second areas, respectively; a second structure including a first strip-shaped semiconductor region on the second area, a second strip-shaped semiconductor region on the third area, and a first strip-shaped void and a second strip-shaped void defining the first and second strip-shaped semiconductor regions; a first electrode disposed on the first semiconductor mesa in the first area, the first strip-shaped semiconductor region of the second structure being disposed between the support and the second semiconductor mesa of the first structure in the second area, and the first and second semiconductor mesas, and the first and second strip-shaped semiconductor regions being arranged to constitute a first arm waveguide of the Mach-Zehnder modulator.
Abstract:
Novel methods and systems for waveguide fabrication and design are disclosed. Designs are described for fabricating ridge, buried and hybrid waveguides by a femtosecond pulsed laser. A laser system may combine a diode bar, a wavelength combiner and a waveguide. The waveguide may convert the electromagnetic radiation of an infrared laser into that the visible-wavelength range.
Abstract:
Provided is a silicon-based electro-optic modulator which is small in size and capable of high speed operation. A first silicon semiconductor layer (120) doped to exhibit a first type of conductivity and a second semiconductor layer (160) doped to exhibit a second type of conductivity are at least partly stacked together, and a relatively thin dielectric (150) is formed at the interface between the stacked first and second silicon semiconductor layers (120, 160). The first silicon semiconductor layer (120) has a rib waveguide shape (130) comprising a rib portion (131) and slab portions (132). A first heavily doped region (140) formed by a high concentration doping process is arranged at a location, in the first silicon semiconductor layer (120), neighboring to each of the slab portions (132). The first heavily doped region (140) has almost the same height as that of the rib portion (131) of the rib waveguide (130).
Abstract:
An apparatus includes a conductive or semiconductive substrate and a dielectric layer located directly thereon. A semiconductor layer is located directly on the dielectric layer. The semiconductor layer includes a ridge waveguide and a heater strip extending parallel to the ridge waveguide. The heater strip is electrically isolated from the ridge waveguide and is doped to carry a current therein about parallel to the ridge waveguide.
Abstract:
Provided is an optical element including an optical waveguide including a core formed from: a rib part; and a first and second slab parts sandwiching the rib part. The first slab part includes a P-type region, the second slab part includes an N-type region, the rib part includes a P-type region which is in contact with the P-type region provided in the first slab part, and an N-type region which is in contact with the N-type region provided in the second slab part. The rib part includes a top portion which is located above the first and second slab parts and includes an undoped region formed from at least one of an intrinsic region and a low-concentration doping region which is doped at a dopant concentration 1/10 or less of a dopant concentration in at least one of the adjacent P-type region and the adjacent N-type region.
Abstract:
An optical modulator includes a first layer that is transparent or semitransparent over a range of optical wavelengths; a modulation layer made from nanoparticles embedded in a matrix; a first electrode and a second electrode that create an electrical field that passes through the modulation layer. A method for forming a nanoparticle modulator includes obtaining and preparing a substrate; forming sub-layers on the substrate; forming a nanoparticle modulator layer, where the nanoparticle modulator layer is an electrical insulator and has a thickness of less than the wavelength of light the nanoparticle QCSE modulator is designed to modulate.
Abstract:
A frequency comb generator fabricated on a chip with elimination of a disadvantageous reflow process, includes an ultra-high Q disk resonator having a waveguide that is a part of a wedge structure fabricated from a silicon dioxide layer of the chip. The disk resonator allows generation of a frequency comb with a mode spacing as low as 2.6 GHz and up to 220 GHz. A surface-loss-limited behavior of the disk resonator decouples a strong dependence of pumping threshold on repetition rate.