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3 October 2024 Phase change material integrated silicon photonics
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Abstract
Large-scale, electronically reconfigurable photonic integrated circuits (PICs) can enable programmable gate array (PGA) to realize extremely fast, arbitrary linear operations, with potential applications in classical and quantum optical information technology. The basic building blocks of existing PGAs are thermally tunable broadband Mach-Zehnder-Interferometers, which pose several limitations in terms of size, power, and scalability. Chalcogenide-based phase change materials (PCMs), exhibiting large nonvolatile change in the refractive index, can potentially transform these devices, providing at least one order of magnitude reduction in the device size, zero static energy consumption, and minimal cross-talk. In this talk, I will discuss different PCMs that can be used in conjunction with silicon and silicon nitride photonics, to create reconfigurable optical switches for visible and infrared wavelengths. I will also talk about different heaters that are needed to actuate the phase transitions on-chip. Specifically, I will show how using ultrathin graphene as a heater element can provide very high energy-efficiency, close to the fundamental limit set by thermodynamics.
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Arka Majumdar "Phase change material integrated silicon photonics", Proc. SPIE PC13110, Active Photonic Platforms (APP) 2024, PC131101J (3 October 2024); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.3023946
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KEYWORDS
Silicon photonics

Photonic integrated circuits

Quantum operations

Quantum optics

Quantum technology applications

Refractive index

Silicon

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