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3 October 2022 Programmable and reconfigurable silicon photonic circuits using the low-loss phase change material Sb2Se3 (Conference Presentation)
Otto L. Muskens, Matthew Delaney, Ioannis Zeimpekis, Daniel Lawson, Sophie Blundell, David Thomson, Dan Hewak
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Abstract
The emerging fields of on-chip photonic data processing, neuromorphic computing, and quantum technology are enabled by mature integrated photonics platforms. Silicon is considered the material of choice and silicon photonics is rapidly becoming a mainstream industrial platform. One of the key elements lacking is the availability of non-volatile programmable materials compatible with silicon photonics which could be used to reconfigure and program circuits without requiring continuous power to maintain its state. Recently, a new family of phase change materials Sb2S3 and Sb2Se3 have gained interest for their properties including a refractive index close to silicon, large switching of refractive index at telecommunications wavelength and ultralow optical losses. I will present here our results in developing the materials and their integration into new types of reconfigurable silicon photonics devices.
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Otto L. Muskens, Matthew Delaney, Ioannis Zeimpekis, Daniel Lawson, Sophie Blundell, David Thomson, and Dan Hewak "Programmable and reconfigurable silicon photonic circuits using the low-loss phase change material Sb2Se3 (Conference Presentation)", Proc. SPIE PC12225, Optics and Photonics for Information Processing XVI, PC1222502 (3 October 2022); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2634035
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KEYWORDS
Silicon photonics

Refractive index

Silicon

Integrated optics

Integrated photonics

Materials science

Photonic integrated circuits

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