Silicon photonic beam steering module with backside coupling elements towards dense heterogeneous integration with drive electronics

Steering electronics, module design and construction of an all silicon DEPFET module

High energy physics experiments require detectors with an excellent imaging performance. The innermost part is often a pixel vertex detector with 2D position readout. The DEPFET pixel detector is an option for the International Linear Collider and will be used in the Belle II experiment at the SuperKEKB accelerator in Japan. Two barrel layers will be installed in a very confined space and hence...

Silicon Photonic Crystals Towards Optical Integration

Editorial: Photonic Integration and Photonics–Electronics Convergence on Silicon Platform

Citation: Yamada K (2015) Editorial: Photonic integration and photonics–electronics convergence on silicon platform. Silicon-based photonics technology, which is based on the same paradigm of silicon (Si) electronics technology, promises to provide us with a compact photonic integration platform with high integration density, mass manufacturing, and excellent cost performance. This technology h...

Photonic Integration in State-of-the-Art Silicon Electronics Processes

Photonic integration within state-of-the-art CMOS and DRAM processes leverages the existing electronic manufacturing infrastructure to minimize cost. Suitable design techniques combined with in-foundry optimization or post-processing have enabled integration within several advanced technologies. !2012 Optical Society of America OCIS codes: (250.5300) Photonic integrated circuits; (200.4650) Opt...

Hybrid III/V silicon photonic source with integrated 1D free-space beam steering.

A chip-scale optical source with integrated beam steering is demonstrated. The chip was fabricated using the hybrid silicon platform and incorporates an on-chip laser, waveguide splitter, amplifiers, phase modulators, and surface gratings to comprise an optical phased array with beam steering across a 12° field of view in one axis. Tuning of the phased array is used to achieve 1.8°(steered axis...