View Michal Lipson, chair of CLEO Subcommittee 16: Micro- & Nano-Photonics, discussing silicon photonics.

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Silicon Photonics

Below are select presentations on this topic. To find additional relevant papers and sessions, visit the online conference program.

CWP6 • Densely Folded Silicon Photonic Wire Biosensors in Ring Resonator and Mach-Zehnder Configurations
Wednesday, May 7, 6:15 p.m.–6:30 p.m., Marriott San Jose Salon 5 and 6
Siegfried Janz, Adam Densmore, Dan-Xia Xu, Philip Waldron, Trevor Mischki, Greg Lopinski, J. Lapointe, A. Delage, E. Post, C. Storey, P. Cheben, B. Lamontagne, J. H. Schmid; Natl. Res. Council Canada, Canada. This presentation will demonstrate silicon waveguide molecular sensors formed by folding long photonic wire waveguides into dense spiral paths that occupy spot sizes less than 150 microns in diameter, and are hence suitable for biochip array formats.

CThKK5 • Localized Substrate Removal Technique Enabling Strong-Confinement Microphotonics in Bulk Si CMOS Processes
Thursday, May 8, 5:45 p.m.–6:00 p.m., Marriott San Jose Salon 4
Charles W. Holzwarth, Jason S. Orcutt, Hanqing Li, Milos A. Popovic, Vladimir Stojanovic, Judy L. Hoyt, Rajeev J. Ram, Henry I. Smith; MIT, USA. A novel post-processing fabrication technique, based on XeF₂ etching, has been developed to locally remove the silicon substrate beneath polysilicon waveguides, enabling integration of low-loss strong-confinement microphotonics into standard bulk-silicon CMOS process flows.

CTuCC1 • Bright Photoluminescence from GaAs and InGaAs Nanoneedles Grown on Si Substrates
Tuesday, May 6, 2:30 p.m.–2:45 p.m., Marriott San Jose Salon 4
Michael Moewe, Linus C. Chuang, Shanna Crankshaw, Connie Chang-Hasnain; Univ. of California at Berkeley, USA. This presentation will report on novel single-crystalline (In)GaAs nanoneedles with 2~5 nm tips, smooth 6-9° taper angles and lengths up to 3-4 um, grown aligned to [111] orientation on Si substrates. Bright photoluminescence is obtained from quantum-well nanoneedles.

SC 300 • Silicon Photonics
Sunday, May 4, 1:30 p.m.–4:30 p.m.
Bahram Jalali; Univ. of California at Los Angeles, USA. After dominating the electronics industry for decades, silicon is on the verge of becoming the material of choice for the photonics industry, the traditional stronghold of III-V semiconductors. Stimulated by a series of recent breakthroughs and propelled by increasing investments by governments and the private sector, silicon photonics is now the most active discipline within the field of integrated optics. The aim of this course is to provide an in depth understanding of the silicon photonics technology, its unique features and its anticipated impact. It discusses passive devices such as waveguides and wavelength filters, photodetectors, modulators, amplifiers, lasers and wavelength converters.