Journal
JOURNAL OF LIGHTWAVE TECHNOLOGY
Volume 38, Issue 2, Pages 282-290Publisher
IEEE-INST ELECTRICAL ELECTRONICS ENGINEERS INC
DOI: 10.1109/JLT.2019.2956719
Keywords
Indium tin oxide; Silicon; Optical waveguides; Optical device fabrication; Phase modulation; Lithium niobate; Beam steering; electro-optic modulator; indium tin oxide (ITO); LiDAR; Mach-Zehnder; phased arrays
Funding
- Air Force Office of Scientific Research (AFOSR) [FA9550-17-1-0377]
- Army Research Office [W911NF-16-2-0194]
- AFOSR SBIR Phase II [FA9550-19-C-0003]
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Here, we experimentally demonstrate an Indium Tin Oxide (ITO) Mach-Zehnder interferometer heterogeneously integrated in silicon photonics. The phase shifter section is realized in a novel lateral MOS configuration, which, due to favorable electrostatic overlap, leads to efficient modulation (V Pi;L = 63 V-.mu m). This is achieved by (i) selecting a strong index changing material (ITO) and (ii) improving the field-overlap as verified by the electrostatic field lines. Furthermore, we show that this platform serves as a building block in an end-fire silicon photonics optical phased array (OPA) with a half-wavelength pitch within the waveguides with anticipated performance, including narrow main beam lobe (< 3 degrees) and > 10 dB suppression of the side lobes, while electrostatically steering the emission profile up to +/- 80 degrees, and if further engineered, can lead not only towards nanosecond-fast beam steering capabilities in LiDAR systems but also in holographic display, free-space optical communications, and optical switches.
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