Passive and active silicon photonics devices at tlc telecommunication wavelengths for on-chip optical interconnects
- Autores: Andrea Zanzi
- Directores de la Tesis: Javier Martí Sendra (dir. tes.), Antoine Christian Jacques Brimont (dir. tes.)
- Lectura: En la Universitat Politècnica de València ( España ) en 2020
- Idioma: español
- Tribunal Calificador de la Tesis: Pablo Sanchis Kilders (presid.), Robert Halir (secret.), Sonia García Blanco (voc.)
- Programa de doctorado: Programa de Doctorado en Telecomunicación por la Universitat Politècnica de València
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- Tesis en acceso abierto en: RiuNet
- Resumen
Optical technologies are the backbone of modern communication systems providing high-speed access to the Internet, efficient inter and intra-data center interconnects and are expending towards growing research fields and new markets such as satel- lite communications, LIDARs (Laser Imaging Detection and Ranging) applications, Neuromorphic computing, and programable photonic circuits, to name a few. Be- cause of its maturity and low-cost, silicon photonics is being leveraged to allow these new technologies to reach their full potential.As a result, there is a strong need for innovative, high-speed and energy-efficient photonic integrated building blocks on the silicon platform to increase the readiness of silicon photonic integrated circuits.
The work developed and presented in this thesis is focused on the design and char- acterization of advanced passive and active devices, for photonic integrated circuits.
The thesis consists of three main chapters as well as a motivation and concluding sections exposing the rationale and the accomplishments of this work. Chapter one describes the design and characterization of an electro-optical Mach-Zehnder mod- ulator embedded in highly efficient vertical pn junction exploiting the free-carrier dispersion effect in the O-band.. Chapter two is devoted to the design and charac- terization of a novel geometry of asymmetrical multimode interference device and its implementation in a Mach-Zehnder modulator. Chapter three is dedicated to the design and characterization of innovative 1-dimensional photonic crystal designs for slow- lightmodulation applications. An extensive analysis of the main trade-off arising from the use of slow light is presented.
