Programmable silicon photonic circuits powered by MEMS

  • Wim Bogaerts
  • , Alain Yuji Takabayashi
  • , Pierre Edinger
  • , Gaehun Jo
  • , Iman Zand
  • , Peter Verheyen
  • , Moises Jezzini
  • , Hamed Sattari
  • , Giuseppe Talli
  • , Cleitus Antony
  • , Mehrdad Saei
  • , Cristina Lerma Arce
  • , Jun Su Lee
  • , Arun Kumar Mallik
  • , Saurav Kumar
  • , Marco Garcia
  • , Tigers Jonuzi
  • , Kristinn B. Gylfason
  • , Niels Quack
  • , Frank Niklaus
  • Umar Khan

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Abstract

We present our work to extend silicon photonics with MEMS actuators to enable low-power, large scale programmable photonic circuits. For this, we start from the existing iSiPP50G silicon photonics platform of IMEC, where we add free-standing movable waveguides using a few post-processing steps. This allows us to implement phase shifters and tunable couplers using electrostatically actuated MEMS, while at the same time maintaining all the original functionality of the silicon photonics platform. The MEMS devices are protected using a wafer-level sealing approach and interfaced with custom multi-channel driver and readout electronics.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationSmart Photonic and Optoelectronic Integrated Circuits 2022
EditorsSailing He, Sailing He, Laurent Vivien
PublisherSPIE
ISBN (Electronic)9781510648814
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 2022
EventSmart Photonic and Optoelectronic Integrated Circuits 2022 - Virtual, Online
Duration: 20 Feb 200224 Feb 2002

Publication series

NameProceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering
Volume12005
ISSN (Print)0277-786X
ISSN (Electronic)1996-756X

Conference

ConferenceSmart Photonic and Optoelectronic Integrated Circuits 2022
CityVirtual, Online
Period20/02/0224/02/02

Keywords

  • Micro-electromechanical Systems
  • Programmable Photonics
  • Silicon Photonics

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