Suspended gallium arsenide platform for building large scale photonic integrated circuits: passive devices

Pisu Jiang, Krishna C Balram

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Abstract

The spectacular success of silicon-based photonic integrated circuits (PICs) in the past decade naturally begs the question of whether similar fabrication procedures can be applied to other material platforms with more desirable optical properties. In this work, we demonstrate the individual passive components (grating couplers, waveguides, multi-mode interferometers and ring resonators) necessary for building large scale integrated circuits in suspended gallium arsenide (GaAs). Implementing PICs in suspended GaAs is a viable route towards achieving optimal system performance in areas with stringent device constraints like energy efficient transceivers for exascale systems, integrated electro-optic comb lasers, integrated quantum photonics, cryogenic photonics and electromechanical guided wave acousto-optics.
Original languageEnglish
Article number12262
Number of pages10
JournalOptics Express
Volume28
Issue number8
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 5 Apr 2020

Research Groups and Themes

  • Bristol Quantum Information Institute
  • QETLabs
  • Photonics and Quantum

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