Ultra-Small Silicon Photonic Wire Waveguide Devices

Tao CHU; Hirohito YAMADA; Shigeru NAKAMURA; Masashige ISHIZAKA; Masatoshi TOKUSHIMA; Yutaka URINO; Satomi ISHIDA; Yasuhiko ARAKAWA

doi:10.1587/transele.E92.C.217

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Ultra-Small Silicon Photonic Wire Waveguide Devices

Tao CHU, Hirohito YAMADA, Shigeru NAKAMURA, Masashige ISHIZAKA, Masatoshi TOKUSHIMA, Yutaka URINO, Satomi ISHIDA, Yasuhiko ARAKAWA

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Keywords: silicon photonics, photonic wire, optical devices, optical waveguide

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2009 Volume E92.C Issue 2 Pages 217-223

DOI https://doi.org/10.1587/transele.E92.C.217

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Abstract

Silicon photonic devices based on silicon photonic wire waveguides are especially attractive devices, since they can be ultra-compact and low-power consumption. In this paper, we demonstrated various devices fabricated on silicon photonic wire waveguides. They included optical directional couplers, reconfigurable optical add/drop multiplexers, 1×2, 1×4, 1×8 and 4×4 optical switches, ring resonators. The characteristics of these devices show that silicon photonic wire waveguides offer promising platforms in constructing compact and power-saving photonic devices and systems.

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