Photonics Research Group Home
Ghent University Journals/Proceedings
About People Research Publications Education Services
 IMEC
intern

 

Publication detail

Authors: W. Bogaerts, A.Y. Takabayashi, P. Edinger, G. Jo, I. Zand, P. Verheyen, M. Jezzini, H. Sattari, G. Talli, C. Antony, M. Saei, C. Lerma-Arce, J. Lee, S. Kumar, M. Garcia, T. Jonuzi, K.B. Gylfason, N. Quack, F. Niklaus, U. Khan
Title: Programmable Silicon Photonic Circuits powered by MEMS
Format: International Conference Proceedings
Publication date: 3/2022
Journal/Conference/Book: SPIE Photonics West OPTO (invited)
Editor/Publisher: SPIE, 
Volume(Issue): 12005 p.12005-21
Location: San Francisco, United States
DOI: 10.1117/12.2614213
Citations: 6 (Dimensions.ai - last update: 8/12/2024)
2 (OpenCitations - last update: 14/10/2024)
Look up on Google Scholar
Download: Download this Publication (36.7MB) (36.7MB)

Abstract

We present our work to extend silicon photonics with MEMS actuators to enable low-power, large scale programmable photonic circuits. For this, we start from the existing iSiPP50G silicon photonics platform of IMEC, where we add free-standing movable waveguides using a few post-processing steps. This allows us to implement phase shifters and tunable couplers using electrostatically actuated MEMS, while at the same time maintaining all the original functionality of the silicon photonics platform. The MEMS devices are protected using a wafer-level sealing approach and interfaced with custom multi-channel driver and readout electronics.

Related Research Topics

Related Projects


Back to publication list