Demonstration of a curved sidewall grating demultiplexer on silicon

Demonstration of a curved sidewall grating demultiplexer on silicon.

We experimentally demonstrate a new type of waveguide multiplexer device designed for silicon photonics, with a crosstalk level as low as -35 dB and an operational wavelength range of 300 nm. A compact device footprint of only 100 × 160 µm2 offers an excellent potential for integration with other silicon nanophotonic circuits.

Experimental demonstration of a hybrid III-V-on-silicon microlaser based on resonant grating cavity mirrors.

We present the experimental demonstration of a novel class of hybrid III-V-on-silicon microlasers. We show that by coupling a silicon cavity to a III-V waveguide, the interaction between the propagating mode in the III-V waveguide and the cavity mode in the silicon resonator results in high, narrowband reflection back into the III-V waveguide, forming a so-called resonant mirror. By combining t...

Design of Optical Demultiplexer using Arrayed Waveguide Grating

Optical demultiplexers are used to receive multiple frequency signal from an optical fiber and to split it into its different frequency components. Arrayed waveguide gratings can be used to design an optical demultiplexer and works on the principle of interferometry. This paper presents the design of optical demultiplexer for an optical signal composed of eight frequency components. Simulation ...

Fabrication of 2D silicon nano-mold based on sidewall transfer

A method based on the sidewall transfer technique for fabricating two-dimensional (2D) nano-mold on a silicon substrate was developed. Instead of using expensive nanolithography, the authors fabricated 2D silicon nano-mold using standard ultraviolet lithography, conformal deposition of gold by radio frequency sputtering, argon sputter etching and deep reactive ion etching (DRIE). This technique...

Fabrication of 2D Silicon Nano-mold Based on Sidewall Patterning