• Photonics Research
  • Vol. 10, Issue 6, 1509 (2022)
Younghyun Kim1、2、*, Didit Yudistira1, Bernardette Kunert1, Marina Baryshnikova1, Reynald Alcotte1, Cenk Ibrahim Ozdemir1, Sanghyeon Kim1、3, Sebastien Lardenois1, Peter Verheyen1, Joris Van Campenhout1, and Marianna Pantouvaki1
Author Affiliations
  • 1IMEC, Heverlee B-3001, Belgium
  • 2Current address: Department of Photonics and Nanoelectronics, BK21 FOUR ERICA-ACE Center, Hanyang University, Ansan 15588, Republic of Korea
  • 3Current address: School of Electrical Engineering, Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST), Daejeon 34141, Republic of Korea
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    DOI: 10.1364/PRJ.451821 Cite this Article Set citation alerts
    Younghyun Kim, Didit Yudistira, Bernardette Kunert, Marina Baryshnikova, Reynald Alcotte, Cenk Ibrahim Ozdemir, Sanghyeon Kim, Sebastien Lardenois, Peter Verheyen, Joris Van Campenhout, Marianna Pantouvaki. Monolithic GaAs/Si V-groove depletion-type optical phase shifters integrated in a 300 mm Si photonics platform[J]. Photonics Research, 2022, 10(6): 1509 Copy Citation Text show less

    Abstract

    We demonstrate monolithically integrated n-GaAs/p-Si depletion-type optical phase shifters fabricated on a 300 mm wafer-scale Si photonics platform. We measured the phase shifter performance using Mach–Zehnder modulators with the GaAs/Si optical phase shifters in both arms. A modulation efficiency of VπL as low as 0.3 V·cm has been achieved, which is much lower compared to a carrier-depletion type Si optical phase shifter with pn junction. While propagation loss is relatively high at 6.5 dB/mm, the modulator length can be reduced by the factor of 4.2 for the same optical modulation amplitude of a Si reference Mach–Zehnder modulator, owing to the high modulation efficiency of the shifters.
    IL=αGaAs×lGaAs+αSi×lSi+ILWT×nWT,

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    Younghyun Kim, Didit Yudistira, Bernardette Kunert, Marina Baryshnikova, Reynald Alcotte, Cenk Ibrahim Ozdemir, Sanghyeon Kim, Sebastien Lardenois, Peter Verheyen, Joris Van Campenhout, Marianna Pantouvaki. Monolithic GaAs/Si V-groove depletion-type optical phase shifters integrated in a 300 mm Si photonics platform[J]. Photonics Research, 2022, 10(6): 1509
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