Title :
Silicon on lithium niobate: A hybrid electro-optical platform for near- and mid-infrared photonics
Author :
Chiles, Jeff ; Fathpour, Sasan
Author_Institution :
Coll. of Opt. & Photonics, Univ. of Central Florida, Orlando, FL, USA
Abstract :
A thin layer of silicon is transferred onto a lithium niobate substrate, forming a hybrid electro-optical platform, on which ring resonators are fabricated and characterized at 1550 nm, showing an optical loss of 3.0±0.5 dB/cm.
Keywords :
electro-optical effects; elemental semiconductors; lithium compounds; optical fabrication; optical losses; optical resonators; silicon; Si-LiNbO3; hybrid electro-optical platform; lithium niobate substrate; optical loss; ring resonators; silicon-on- lithium niobate; wavelength 1550 nm; Fiber nonlinear optics; Optical device fabrication; Optical fibers; Optical ring resonators; Photonics;
Conference_Titel :
Lasers and Electro-Optics (CLEO), 2014 Conference on
Conference_Location :
San Jose, CA
