Naser Hosseini, Ronald Dekker, Marcel Hoekman, Matthijn Dekkers, Jan Bos, Arne Leinse, and Rene Heideman
Optics Express, Vol. 23, Issue 11, (2015) pp. 14018-14026
We will demonstrate a stress-optic phase modulator in the passive SiN-based TriPleX platform using a layer of piezoelectric material. Regarding the stress-optic effect, the piezoelectric layer deposited on top of an optical waveguide is employed to control the phase of propagating light in the structure by applying an electrical field across the layer. In this work, it is demonstrated that the stress-optic effect lowers the power consumption by a factor of one million for quasi-DC operation and increases the modulation speed by three orders of magnitude, compared to currently used thermo-optic modulation in the TriPleX platform.
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