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Integrated silicon photonic MEMS

Quack, Niels  
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Takabayashi, Alain Yuji  
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Sattari, Hamed  
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March 20, 2023
Microsystems & Nanoengineering

Silicon photonics has emerged as a mature technology that is expected to play a key role in critical emerging applications, including very high data rate optical communications, distance sensing for autonomous vehicles, photonic-accelerated computing, and quantum information processing. The success of silicon photonics has been enabled by the unique combination of performance, high yield, and high-volume capacity that can only be achieved by standardizing manufacturing technology. Today, standardized silicon photonics technology platforms implemented by foundries provide access to optimized library components, including low-loss optical routing, fast modulation, continuous tuning, high-speed germanium photodiodes, and high-efficiency optical and electrical interfaces. However, silicon's relatively weak electro-optic effects result in modulators with a significant footprint and thermo-optic tuning devices that require high power consumption, which are substantial impediments for very large-scale integration in silicon photonics. Microelectromechanical systems (MEMS) technology can enhance silicon photonics with building blocks that are compact, low-loss, broadband, fast and require very low power consumption. Here, we introduce a silicon photonic MEMS platform consisting of high-performance nano-opto-electromechanical devices fully integrated alongside standard silicon photonics foundry components, with wafer-level sealing for long-term reliability, flip-chip bonding to redistribution interposers, and fibre-array attachment for high port count optical and electrical interfacing. Our experimental demonstration of fundamental silicon photonic MEMS circuit elements, including power couplers, phase shifters and wavelength-division multiplexing devices using standardized technology lifts previous impediments to enable scaling to very large photonic integrated circuits for applications in telecommunications, neuromorphic computing, sensing, programmable photonics, and quantum computing.

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research article
DOI
10.1038/s41378-023-00498-z
Web of Science ID

WOS:000956092800002

Author(s)
Quack, Niels  
Takabayashi, Alain Yuji  
Sattari, Hamed  
Edinger, Pierre
Jo, Gaehun
Bleiker, Simon J.
Errando-Herranz, Carlos
Gylfason, Kristinn B.
Niklaus, Frank
Khan, Umar
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Date Issued

2023-03-20

Publisher

SPRINGERNATURE

Published in
Microsystems & Nanoengineering
Volume

9

Issue

1

Start page

27

Subjects

Nanoscience & Nanotechnology

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Instruments & Instrumentation

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Science & Technology - Other Topics

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phase-shifter

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aluminum nitride

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platform

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compact

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technology

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resonator

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switches

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REVIEWED

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April 24, 2023
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