Post-fabrication phase trimming of Mach-Zehnder Interferometers by laser annealing of germanium implanted waveguides
Post-fabrication phase trimming of Mach-Zehnder Interferometers by laser annealing of germanium implanted waveguides
We demonstrate a novel high-accuracy post-fabrication trimming technique to fine-tune the phase of integrated Mach-Zehnder Interferometers (MZIs), enabling permanent correction of typical fabrication based phase errors. The effective index change of the optical mode is 0.19 in our measurement, which is approximately an order of magnitude improvement compared to previous work with similar excess optical loss. Our measurement results suggest that a phase accuracy of 0.078 rad was achievable with active feedback control.
photonic integrated circuits, silicon photonics
578-582
Chen, Xia
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Milošević, Milan
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Thomson, David
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Khokhar, Ali
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Franz, Yohann
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Runge, Antoine
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Mailis, Sakellaris
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Peacock, Anna C.
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Reed, Graham
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17 October 2017
Chen, Xia
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Milošević, Milan
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Thomson, David
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Khokhar, Ali
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Franz, Yohann
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Runge, Antoine
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Mailis, Sakellaris
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Peacock, Anna C.
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Reed, Graham
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Chen, Xia, Milošević, Milan, Thomson, David, Khokhar, Ali, Franz, Yohann, Runge, Antoine, Mailis, Sakellaris, Peacock, Anna C. and Reed, Graham
(2017)
Post-fabrication phase trimming of Mach-Zehnder Interferometers by laser annealing of germanium implanted waveguides.
Photonics Research, 5 (6), .
(doi:10.1364/PRJ.5.000578).
Abstract
We demonstrate a novel high-accuracy post-fabrication trimming technique to fine-tune the phase of integrated Mach-Zehnder Interferometers (MZIs), enabling permanent correction of typical fabrication based phase errors. The effective index change of the optical mode is 0.19 in our measurement, which is approximately an order of magnitude improvement compared to previous work with similar excess optical loss. Our measurement results suggest that a phase accuracy of 0.078 rad was achievable with active feedback control.
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Submitted date: 26 June 2017
Accepted/In Press date: 11 September 2017
e-pub ahead of print date: 13 September 2017
Published date: 17 October 2017
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photonic integrated circuits, silicon photonics
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URI: http://eprints.soton.ac.uk/id/eprint/412216
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Xia Chen
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Milan Milošević
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David Thomson
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Ali Khokhar
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Yohann Franz
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Antoine Runge
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Sakellaris Mailis
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Anna C. Peacock
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Graham Reed
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