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Octrooi

Hybrid laser

Silicon photonics has gained increased attention in recent years because of its potential to significantly reduce the cost of optical devices used in traditional applications and its potential to enable new applications. Silicon Photonic Integrated Circuits (PICs) can be fabricated using standard, wafer scale CMOS technology, allowing a drastic reduction of the cost of the integrated circuits through economies of scale. Moreover the high-end fabrication tools, also used for fabricating the most advanced electronic chips and capable of handling 200 mm or 300 mm silicon wafers, allow achieving high-yield fabrication and can bring volume economies to optics. Silicon is an ideal material platform for near-infrared and mid-infrared photonic integrated circuits. With a band gap of 1.12 eV, silicon is transparent for telecom wavelengths such as 1.3µm and the 1.55µm band. Moreover, using the silicon platform, integration of photonic devices with microelectronic circuits is enabled. Silicon photonics can enable a chip-scale platform for monolithic integration of photonics and micro-electronics for applications of optical interconnects in which high data bandwidths are required in a small footprint or applications such as chemical and biological sensors, or signal processing, where lower speed digital or analog functions may be required.
Octrooi-publicatienummer: EP2539979
Jaar aanvraag: 2018
Jaar toekenning: 2018
Jaar van publicatie: 2018
Status: Toegewezen
Technologiedomeinen: Optica
Gevalideerd voor IOF-sleutel: Ja
Toegewezen aan: Associatie Universiteit Gent