Silicon Graphene Reconfigurable CROWS and SCISSORS

Author

Capmany, J. ; Domenech, D. ; Munoz, P.

Author_Institution

ITEAM Res. Inst., Univ. Politec. de Valencia, Valencia, Spain

Volume

7

Issue

2

fYear

2015

fDate

Apr-15

Firstpage

1

Lastpage

9

Abstract

We propose the incorporation of graphene to integrated coupled resonator waveguides and side-coupled integrated spaced sequence of resonator devices to enable reconfigurable operation. The key element to achieve this is a tunable silicon graphene Mach-Zehnder interferometer (MZI) that acts as an equivalent variable 2 × 2 coupler, where the value of its coupling constant is changed by varying the chemical potential of a graphene section placed on top of one of its arms.

Keywords

Mach-Zehnder interferometers; chemical potential; elemental semiconductors; graphene; integrated optics; nanophotonics; optical couplers; optical resonators; optical waveguides; silicon; MZI; Mach-Zehnder interferometer; SCISSORS; Si-C; chemical potential; coupling constant; equivalent variable coupler; integrated coupled resonator waveguides; side-coupled integrated spaced sequence-of-resonator devices; silicon graphene reconfigurable CROWS; Chemicals; Dielectrics; Graphene; Microwave filters; Optical resonators; Optical waveguides; Silicon; Graphene; Integrated optics; Microwave photonic filtering; Microwave photonics; graphene; integrated optics; microwave photonic filtering;

fLanguage

English

Journal_Title

Photonics Journal, IEEE

Publisher

ieee

ISSN

1943-0655

Type

jour

DOI

10.1109/JPHOT.2015.2407314

Filename

7050244