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11 May 2012CMOS-compatible electro-optical Mach-Zehnder modulator based on the amorphous silicon technology
The realization of on-chip optical interconnects requires the integration of active micro-optical devices with
microelectronics. However, it is not clear yet how silicon photonics could be integrated within CMOS chips. In this
context the non-crystalline forms of silicon, such as laser-annealed polycrystalline and hydrogenated amorphous silicon
(a-Si:H), can deserve some advantages as they can be included almost harmlessly everywhere in a CMOS typical run-sheet,
yielding low-cost and flexible fabrication. In particular, a-Si:H can be deposited using the CMOS-compatible low
temperature plasma enhanced chemical vapour deposition (PECVD) technique, which brings clear advantages
particularly for a back-end photonic integrated circuit (PIC) integration. However, till now a-Si:H has been mainly
considered for the objective of passive optical elements within a photonic layer at λ=1.55 μm. Only a small number of
examples have been reported, in fact, on waveguide integrated active devices. In this paper we detail about an effective
refractive index variation obtained through an electrically induced carrier depletion in an as-deposited a-Si:H-based p-i-n
waveguiding device. For this device switch-on and switch-off times of ~2 ns were measured allowing a modulation rate
higher than 150 MHz.ÿÿ
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Sandro Rao, Giuseppe Coppola, Mariano A. Gioffrè, Francesco G. Della Corte, "CMOS-compatible electro-optical Mach-Zehnder modulator based on the amorphous silicon technology," Proc. SPIE 8431, Silicon Photonics and Photonic Integrated Circuits III, 84310U (11 May 2012); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.922237