Authors:	W. Bogaerts, L. Van Iseghem, P. Edinger, H. Sattari, A.Y. Takabayashi, X. Chen, H. Deng, P. Verheyen, A. Ribeiro, U. Khan, N. Quack, K.B. Gylfason
Title:	Low-Power Electro-Optic Actuators for Large-Scale Programmable Photonic Circuits
Format:	International Conference Proceedings
Publication date:	5/2021
Journal/Conference/Book:	Conference on Lasers and Electro-Optics (invited)
Volume(Issue):	p.STh1Q.4
DOI:	10.1364/CLEO_SI.2021.STh1Q.4
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Abstract

Photonic integrated circuits are becoming increasingly more complex, especially with the emergence of programmable photonic circuits. These require many tunable photonic elements, such as electro-optic phase shifters and tunable couplers. We will discuss our progress in compact, low-power silicon photonics actuators based on heaters, liquid crystal and MEMS that can be scaled up to large circuits.

Related Research Topics

• Liquid Crystals for nanophotonic applications
• MEMS and NEMS optical actuators in SOI
• Reconfigurable Photonic Circuits

Related Projects

• H2020: MORPHIC (MEMS-based zerO-power Reconfigurable Photonic ICs)
• ERC-CoG: PhotonicSWARM (Photonic Integrated Circuits using Scattered Waveguide elements in an Adaptive, Reconfigurable Mesh.)