• Photonics Research
  • Vol. 5, Issue 6, 762 (2017)
Tommaso Cassese1, Marco Angelo Giambra2, Vito Sorianello2, Gabriele De Angelis2, Michele Midrio3, Marianna Pantouvaki4, Joris Van Campenhout4, Inge Asselberghs4, Cedric Huyghebaert4, Antonio D’Errico5, and Marco Romagnoli2、*
Author Affiliations
  • 1Scuola Superiore Sant’Anna-TeCIP Institute, via Moruzzi 1, 56124 Pisa, Italy
  • 2CNIT-Consorzio Nazionale Interuniversitario per le Telecomunicazioni, via Moruzzi 1, 56124 Pisa, Italy
  • 3CNIT-Consorzio Nazionale Interuniversitario per le Telecomunicazioni, Università degli Studi di Udine, 33100 Udine, Italy
  • 4Imec, Kapeldreef 75, 3001 Heverlee, Belgium
  • 5Ericsson Research, Via G. Moruzzi 1, 56124 Pisa, Italy
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    DOI: 10.1364/PRJ.5.000762 Cite this Article Set citation alerts
    Tommaso Cassese, Marco Angelo Giambra, Vito Sorianello, Gabriele De Angelis, Michele Midrio, Marianna Pantouvaki, Joris Van Campenhout, Inge Asselberghs, Cedric Huyghebaert, Antonio D’Errico, Marco Romagnoli. Capacitive actuation and switching of add–drop graphene-silicon micro-ring filters[J]. Photonics Research, 2017, 5(6): 762 Copy Citation Text show less

    Abstract

    We propose and experimentally demonstrate capacitive actuation of a graphene–silicon micro-ring add/drop filter. The mechanism is based on a silicon–SiO2–graphene capacitor on top of the ring waveguide. We show the capacitive actuation of the add/drop functionality by a voltage-driven change of the graphene optical absorption. The proposed capacitive solution overcomes the need for continuous heating to keep tuned the filter’s in/out resonance and therefore eliminates “in operation” energy consumption.
    σ(ω)=σ02(tanhω+2μ4kBT+tanhω2μ4kBT)+iσ02πln[(ω+2μ)2(ω2μ)2+(2kBT)2]+i4σ02πμω+iτ1.(1)

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    |VVDirac|=qnsCox+|μ|q=qCoxμ2π(vf)2+|μ|q.(2)

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    ϵG(ω)=1+iσ(ω)ωϵ0hG,(3)

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    Tommaso Cassese, Marco Angelo Giambra, Vito Sorianello, Gabriele De Angelis, Michele Midrio, Marianna Pantouvaki, Joris Van Campenhout, Inge Asselberghs, Cedric Huyghebaert, Antonio D’Errico, Marco Romagnoli. Capacitive actuation and switching of add–drop graphene-silicon micro-ring filters[J]. Photonics Research, 2017, 5(6): 762
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