Download or read book Design Fabrication and Optical Characterization of One dimensional Two and Multi component Photonic Crystals Based on Silicon written by Anna Baldycheva and published by . This book was released on 2012 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Desigh Fabrication and Optical Characterization of One dimensional Two and Multi component Photonic Crystals Based on Silicon written by Anna Baldycheva and published by . This book was released on 2012 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Photonic Crystals written by Kurt Busch and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2006-05-12 with total page 380 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The majority of the contributions in this topically edited book stems from the priority program SPP 1113 "Photonische Kristalle" run by the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG), resulting in a survey of the current state of photonic crystal research in Germany. The first part of the book describes methods for the theoretical analysis of their optical properties as well as the results. The main part is dedicated to the fabrication, characterization and modeling of two- and three-dimensional photonic crystals, while the final section presents a wide spectrum of applications: gas sensors, micro-lasers, and photonic crystal fibers. Illustrated in full color, this book is not only of interest to advanced students and researchers in physics, electrical engineering, and material science, but also to company R&D departments involved in photonic crystal-related technological developments.

Download or read book Nanostructured Semiconductors written by Petra Granitzer and published by CRC Press. This book was released on 2014-03-11 with total page 694 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book focuses on nanostructured semiconductors, their fabrication, and their application in various fields such as optics, acoustics, and biomedicine. It presents a compendium of recent developments in nanostructured and hybrid materials and also contains a collection of principles and approaches related to nano-size semiconductors. The text su

Download or read book Advances in Photonic Crystals and Devices written by Narendra Kumar and published by CRC Press. This book was released on 2019-09-06 with total page 358 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In recent decades, there has been a phenomenal growth in the field of photonic crystal research and has emerged as an interdisciplinary area. Photonic crystals are usually nanostructured electromagnetic media consisting of periodic variation of dielectric constant, which prohibit certain electromagnetic wave frequency ranges called photonic bandgaps to propagate through them. Photonic crystals elicited numerous interesting features by unprecedented control of light and their exploitation is a promising tool in nanophotonics and designing optical components. The book ‘Advances in Photonic Crystals and Devices’ is designed with 15 chapters with introductory as well as research and application based contents. It covers the following highlighted features: Basics of photonic crystals and photonic crystal fibers Different theoretical as well as experimental approaches Current research advances from around the globe Nonlinear optics and super-continuum generation in photonic crystal fibers Magnetized cold plasma photonic crystals Liquid crystal defect embedded with graphene layers Biophysics and biomedical applications as optical sensors Two-dimensional photonic crystal demultiplexer Optical logic gates using photonic crystals A large number of references The goal of this book is to draw the background in understanding, fabrication and characterization of photonic crystals using a variety of materials and their applications in design of several optical devices. Though the book is useful as a reference for the researchers working in the area of photonics, optical computing and fabrication of nanophotonic devices, it is intended for the beginners like students pursuing their masters’ degree in photonics.

Download or read book Photonic Crystals Theory Applications and Fabrication written by Dennis W Prather and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2009-05-26 with total page 417 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Only Source You Need for Understanding the Design and Applications of Photonic Crystal-Based Devices This book presents in detail the fundamental theoretical background necessary to understand the unique optical phenomena arising from the crystalline nature of photonic-crystal structures and their application across a range of disciplines. Organized to take readers from basic concepts to more advanced topics, the book covers: Preliminary concepts of electromagnetic waves and periodic media Numerical methods for analyzing photonic-crystal structures Devices and applications based on photonic bandgaps Engineering photonic-crystal dispersion properties Fabrication of two- and three-dimensional photonic crystals The authors assume an elementary knowledge of electromagnetism, vector calculus, Fourier analysis, and complex number analysis. Therefore, the book is appropriate for advanced undergraduate students in physics, applied physics, optics, electronics, and chemical and electrical engineering, as well as graduate students and researchers in these fields.

Download or read book Design Fabrication and Characterization of One Dimensional Photonic Crystal Devices written by Xiaohua Shi and published by . This book was released on 2007 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Fabrication and Optical Characterization of Macroporous Silicon Photonic Crystals written by Matteo Balbo and published by . This book was released on 2014 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The computer revolution experienced in recent years has been possible thanks to semiconductor materials, such as silicon, germanium and gallium arsenide. The success of the silicon-based microelectronics is due to the ability to integrate multiple elements on the same chip such as processors, memories, and interfaces. However, the increasing miniaturization and the realization of faster devices have revealed the difficulty to overcome the intrinsic limits of these materials. For example, devices have to dissipate the heat produced by the enormous power density involved, without damaging themselves , and the lengths can not be reduced indefinitely if one wants to ensure the synchronization of the signals. All these limitations have led to research into technologies that overcome the physical limits of the silicon-based microelectronics. From the outset, the most promising approach has been photonics. In photonics, the so-called photonic crystals have aroused a widespread interest. These innovative materials are fundamental for the construction of optical circuits, i.e. circuits in which the transmission of information is carried out by photons instead of electrons. These materials can be considered as the optical analogue of semiconductors: in semiconductors the presence of a periodic potential, causes the formation of electronic energy bands separated by forbidden intervals called energy gaps, where there are not electronic states. In a photonic crystal, a periodic distribution of dielectrics with different refractive index causes the formation of a so-called photonic energy gap: photons with energy values internal to the forbidden gap can not pass through the crystal and will be refected or conffined inside of it. The goal of this thesis is the fabrication of photonic crystals based on macroporous silicon technology and their optical characterization using infrared spectroscopy in order to reveal the presence of photonic band gaps. All the fabrication and characterization processes were carried out in the clean room and laboratories of the "Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya (UPC)" , thanks to the collaboration of the "Grup de Recerca en Micro i Nanotecnologies". The thesis is structured as follows: in Chapter 1 are presented the theoretical aspects related to photonic crystals, as well as the mechanism of formation of macropores in n-type silicon wafers by electrochemical etching. In chapter 2 is explained the fabrication process of the macroporous silicon photonic crystals detailing all the process steps to which the silicon wafer is subjected to obtain the desired structures. Photographs taken by a scanning electron microscope (SEM) are also reported to verify the correspondence between the obtained structures and those drawn in the design phase. In Chapter 3, using the MIT photonic band gap (MPB) software package, developed by the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) , the band diagrams of different photonic structures are computed to study how certain design parameters could affect the position and width of the photonic band gaps. Chapter 4 presents the results of the refection and thermal emission measurements, carried out by Fourier Transform Infrared spectroscopy (FT-IR) to determine the optical response and to verify the presence of photonic band gaps in the fabricated structures. Finally, in Chapter 5 are given the conclusions of this thesis.

Download or read book Advances in Photonic Crystals written by Vittorio Passaro and published by BoD – Books on Demand. This book was released on 2013-02-13 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book collects chapters on different theoretical and experimental aspects of photonics crystals for Nanophotonics applications. It is divided in two parts - a theoretical section and an experimental and applicative section. The first part includes chapters developing several numerical methods for analysis and design of photonic crystal devices, such as 2D ring resonators for filters, single and coupled nanobeam cavities, birefringence in photonic crystal cavities, threshold analysis in photonic crystal lasers, gap solitons in photonic crystals, novel photonic atolls, dynamic characteristics of photonic crystal filters. The second part focuses on some aspects of photonic crystals fabrication and relevant applications, such as nitrogen defect technology in diamond, silicon nitride free standing membranes, photonic crystals structures in silicon, photonic crystals for optical sensing.

Download or read book Theoretical Foundations and Application of Photonic Crystals written by Alexander Vakhrushev and published by BoD – Books on Demand. This book was released on 2018-04-04 with total page 230 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is devoted to the description of research and design of photonic crystals. Topics included in the book cover a wide range of research in the field of theoretical analysis and experimental investigation: the electromagnetic field in the photonic crystal, propagation of waves in the gyrotropic magnetophotonic crystals, low one-photon absorption, ultratransparent photonic crystals, colloidal assembly, photonic crystal application for development of all-optical computational system, design strategies for PC devices, self-organization of liquid crystalline nanostructures, and optical diodes. This book will be useful for engineers, technologists, researchers, and postgraduate students interested in the research, design, fabrication processes, and applications of photonic crystals.

Download or read book Unraveling Photonic Bands written by Tsuyoshi Yamashita and published by . This book was released on 2005 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Photonic crystals, periodic dielectric structures that control photons in a similar way that atomic crystals control electrons, present opportunities for the unprecedented control of light. Photonic crystals display a wide gamut of properties, such as the photonic band gap, negative index of refraction, slow or stationary modes, and anomalous refraction and propagation effects. This thesis investigates the modeling, simulation, fabrication, and measurement of two-dimensional square lattice photonic crystals. An effective index model was developed to describe the propagation of electromagnetic waves in the media and applied to characterize the behavior of self-collimated beams to discern the effect of the photonic crystal on the evolution of the amplitude and phase of the propagating beam. Potential applications include optical interconnects and stand alone devices such as filters and lasers. Based on design parameters from the simulations, two dimensional photonic crystals were fabricated on amorphous and single crystal silicon-on-insulator substrates utilizing electron beam lithography and inductively coupled plasma etching. A unique etching process utilizing a combination of Cl2 and C4F6 gases was developed and characterized which displayed a vertical profile with a sidewall angle of under 1 degree from vertical and very smooth sidewalls for features as small as 150 nm. The high quality of the etching was the key to obtaining extremely low loss, low noise structures, making feasible the fabrication of large area photonic crystal devices that are necessary to measure propagation phenomena. Reflectivity measurements were used to directly observe the photonic band structure with excellent correlation with theory. A device was designed and fabricated which successfully verified the prediction of the simulations through measurements of the self-collimation effect across a broad range of infrared wavelengths. A solid foundation for the necessary components (simulation, modeling, design, fabrication, and measurement) of two-dimensional photonic crystal has been demonstrated. Elements from solid state physics, materials science, optics, and electromagnetics were incorporated to further the understanding of the mechanism of beam propagation in photonic crystals and illuminating the vast potential of research in periodic media.

Download or read book Design Fabrication and Characterisation of Silicon Based One Dimensional Photonic Crystal Structures written by Siobhán Margaret O'Neill and published by . This book was released on 2008 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Frontiers in Physics 2017 2018 Editor s Choice written by Thomas Beyer and published by Frontiers Media SA. This book was released on 2019-02-22 with total page 190 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Launched in 2013, Frontiers in Physics consists of 18 specialties covering all areas of research in physics. With over 500 published manuscripts, the journal is now indexed in SCIE with the first impact factor coming in 2019. Frontiers in Physics aims to become the largest and most cited open access multidisciplinary physics journal. This eBook collects what the Specialty Chief Editors of the journal believed were the most interesting manuscripts published over the past two years. It is a nice collection, which will offer the reader the chance to have a quick overview of the specialties of the journal and offer a glimpse into the state of the art of physics. We must confess that it has been quite challenging to select only one article per specialty section given the many important manuscripts published by the journal in 2017 and 2018. We invite our reader to have a look at the journal homepage and browse what we have published so far. It includes articles on topics very different from each other, written by both early career scientists and well-known researchers, ranging from the indisputable advance of the field to the more bold. We hope you enjoy reading our first edition of the Frontiers in Physics Editor's Choice eBook! Professor Alex Hansen (Field Chief Editor) and Dr Claudio Bogazzi (Journal Manager)

Download or read book Design Fabrication and Characterization of High Density Silicon Photonic Components written by Adam Jones and published by . This book was released on 2014 with total page 124 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Our burgeoning appetite for data relentlessly demands exponential scaling of computing and communications resources leading to an overbearing and ever-present drive to improve efficiency while reducing on-chip area even as photonic components expand to fill application spaces no longer satisfied by their electronic counterparts. With a high index contrast, low optical loss, and compatibility with the CMOS fabrication infrastructure, silicon-on-insulator technology delivers a mechanism by which efficient, sub-micron waveguides can be fabricated while enabling monolithic integration of photonic components and their associated electronic infrastructure. The result is a solution leveraging the superior bandwidth of optical signaling on a platform capable of delivering the optical analogue to Moore's Law scaling of transistor density. Device size is expected to end Moore's Law scaling in photonics as Maxwell's equations limit the extent to which this parameter may be reduced. The focus of the work presented here surrounds photonic device miniaturization and the development of 3D optical interconnects as approaches to optimize performance in densely integrated optical interconnects. In this dissertation, several technological barriers inhibiting widespread adoption of photonics in data communications and telecommunications are explored. First, examination of loss and crosstalk performance in silicon nitride over SOI waveguide crossings yields insight into the feasibility of 3D optical interconnects with the first experimental analysis of such a structure presented herein. A novel measurement platform utilizing a modified racetrack resonator is then presented enabling extraction of insertion loss data for highly efficient structures while requiring minimal on-chip area. Finally, pioneering work in understanding the statistical nature of doublet formation in microphotonic resonators is delivered with the resulting impact on resonant device design detailed.

Download or read book Photonic Crystals written by Kuon Inoue and published by Springer. This book was released on 2013-11-11 with total page 329 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Photonic crystals are a very hot topic in photonics. The basics, fabrication, application and new theoretical developments in the field of photonic crystals are presented in a comprehensive way, together with a survey of the advanced state-of-the-art report.

Download or read book Fabrication of Two dimensional and Three dimensional Photonic Crystal Devices for Applications in Chip scale Optical Interconnects written by and published by . This book was released on 2006 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: To date, the realization of chip-scale optical interconnects has been inhibited by the lack of a device technology that can provide optical functionality at a scale commensurate with integrated circuits. To overcome this limitation, I propose the realization of an "optical superhighway" as an alternative interconnect paradigm for next-generation integrated circuits using semiconductor-based photonic-crystal (PhC) devices. PhCs have the potential to be the elementary building blocks of the next generation of opto-electronic devices and integrated circuits. This potential has invigorated global research interest in hybrid optical-electrical interconnects at the chip scale. In this thesis, I will present the development of such Nano-Photonic Crystal (PhC) interconnects using conventional CMOS fabrication technology, thereby enabling photonic functionality on the VLSI scale. Accordingly, I will discuss the fabrication of high fill-factor planar PhC devices on silicon-on-insulator substrates, using both capacitively coupled and inductively coupled plasma etching. Functional, sub-100-nm, high-aspect-ratio PhC devices will be presented, along with the technical challenges encountered in their realization. Also, a robust etch-process toolbox has been developed that, in addition to realizing chip-scale optical interconnects, also paves the way for applications in other technology niches like MEMS, terahertz devices, nanophotonics and microfluidics, to be realized in a single silicon platform, thus enabling systems-on-a-chip. In-plane optical routing in ultra-thin silicon-on-sapphire is also explored as part of this investigation. In addition, I will discuss the development of a sub-surface silicon optical bus (S3B), a buried silicon optical interconnect technology. The approach relies on engineering the dispersion properties of three-dimensional (3D) photonic crystals embedded in silicon to control light propagation. In particular, a novel method of fabricating buried 3D photonic-crystal structures using conventional planar silicon micromachining will be presented. This method utilizes a single planar etch mask and time-multiplexed etch process along with sidewall oxidation to create an array of spherical voids with three-dimensional symmetry. Preliminary results will be presented to support the feasibility of realizing chip-scale optical interconnects using the proposed approach. The results of this research will not only help realize a new generation of optical integrated circuits, but also provide a solution to the global interconnect delay anticipated in next-generation of high-end integrated circuits. These PhC devices could very well provide the building blocks for the integrated circuits of the future.

Download or read book Enhancing the Performance of Si Photonics written by Hamdam Nikkhah and published by . This book was released on 2018 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The widespread adoption of photonic circuits requires the economics of volume manufacturing offered by integration technology. A Complementary Metal-Oxide Semiconductor compatible silicon material platform is particularly attractive because it leverages the huge investment that has been made in silicon electronics and its high index contrast enables tight confinement of light which decreases component footprint and energy consumption. Nevertheless, there remain challenges to the development of photonic integrated circuits. Although the density of integration is advancing steady and the integration of the principal components - waveguides, optical sources and amplifiers, modulators, and photodetectors - have all been demonstrated, the integration density is low and the device library far from complete. The integration density is low primarily because of the difficulty of confining light in structures small compared to the wavelength which measured in micrometers. The device library is incomplete because of the immaturity of hybridisation on silicon of other materials required by active devices such as III-V semiconductor alloys and ferroelectric oxides and the difficulty of controlling the coupling of light between disparate material platforms. Metamaterials are nanocomposite materials which have optical properties not readily found in Nature that are defined as much by their geometry as their constituent materials. This offers the prospect of the engineering of materials to achieve integrated components with enhanced functionality. Metamaterials are a class of photonic crystals includes subwavelength grating waveguides, which have already provided breakthroughs in component performance yet require a simpler fabrication process compatible with current minimum feature size limitations. The research reported in this PhD thesis advances our understanding of the structure-property relations of key planar light circuit components and the metamaterial engineering of these properties. The analysis and simulation of components featuring structures that are only just subwavelength is complicated and consumes large computer resources especially when a three dimensional analysis of components structured over a scale larger than the wavelength is desired. This obstructs the iterative design-simulate cycle. An abstraction is required that summarises the properties of the metamaterial pertinent to the larger scale while neglecting the microscopic detail. That abstraction is known as homogenisation. It is possible to extend homogenisation from the long-wavelength limit up to the Bragg resonance (band edge). It is found that a metamaterial waveguide is accurately modeled as a continuous medium waveguide provided proper account is taken of the emergent properties of the homogenised metamaterial. A homogenised subwavelength grating waveguide structure behaves as a strongly anisotropic and spatially dispersive material with a c-axis normal to the layers of a one dimensional multi-layer structure (Kronig-Penney) or along the axis of uniformity for a two dimensional photonic crystal in three dimensional structure. Issues with boundary effects in the near Bragg resonance subwavelength are avoided either by ensuring the averaging is over an extensive path parallel to boundary or the sharp boundary is removed by graded structures. A procedure is described that enables the local homogenised index of a graded structure to be determined. These finding are confirmed by simulations and experiments on test circuits composed of Mach-Zehnder interferometers and individual components composed of regular nanostructured waveguide segments with different lengths and widths; and graded adiabatic waveguide tapers. The test chip included Lun̈eburg micro-lenses, which have application to Fourier optics on a chip. The measured loss of each lens is 0.72 dB. Photonic integrated circuits featuring a network of waveguides, modulators and couplers are important to applications in RF photonics, optical communications and quantum optics. Modal phase error is one of the significant limitations to the scaling of multimode interference coupler port dimension. Multimode interference couplers rely on the Talbot effect and offer the best in-class performance. Anisotropy helps reduce the Talbot length but temporal and spatial dispersion is necessary to control the modal phase error and wavelength dependence of the Talbot length. The Talbot effect in a Kronig-Penny metamaterial is analysed. It is shown that the metamaterial may be engineered to provide a close approximation to the parabolic dispersion relation required by the Talbot effect for perfect imaging. These findings are then applied to the multimode region and access waveguide tapers of a multi-slotted waveguide multimode interference coupler with slots either in the transverse direction or longitudinal direction. A novel polarisation beam splitter exploiting the anisotropy provided by a longitudinally slotted structure is demonstrated by simulation. The thesis describes the design, verification by simulation and layout of a photonic integrated circuit containing metamaterial waveguide test structures. The test and measurement of the fabricated chip and the analysis of the data is described in detail. The experimental results show good agreement with the theory, with the expected errors due to fabrication process limitations. From the Scanning Electron Microscope images and the measurements, it is clear that at the boundary of the minimum feature size limit, the error increases but still the devices can function.