Abstract:
Provided are an optical device and a method of fabricating the same. The optical device includes: a substrate; and a ring resonator on the substrate. The ring resonator includes: a cladding layer including a lower cladding layer and an upper cladding layer on the substrate; a core including a plurality of rings between the lower cladding layer and the upper cladding layer; and an embeded layer interposed between the core and the cladding layer and having a refractive index less than that of the core and more than that of the cladding layer.
Abstract:
Provided is an electro-optic modulating device. The electro-optic modulating device includes an optical waveguide with a vertical structure and sidewalls of the vertical structure are used to configure a junction.
Abstract:
Provided are a method of forming a waveguide facet and a photonics device using the method. The method includes forming at least one optical device die including waveguides on a substrate, forming at least one trench in a lower surface of the substrate, and cleaving the substrate to form facets of the waveguides over the trench. The trench is formed along a direction crossing the waveguides under the waveguides.
Abstract:
Provided is a photonics device. The photonics device includes a distribution Bragg reflector (DBR), first and second waveguides disposed at both sides of the DBR, first lenses disposed between the DBR and the first waveguides, and second lenses disposed between the DBR and the second waveguides.
Abstract:
Provided is a ring resonator including first and second waveguides disposed spaced apart from each other, on a substrate, and at least one channel including at least one ring waveguide arranged in a row between the first and second waveguides. The first and second waveguides and the ring waveguide may be formed of silicon, a width of the ring waveguide may range from 0.7 μm to 1.5 μm, a height of the ring waveguide may range from 150 nm to 300 nm, and a space between the first and second waveguides and the ring waveguide most adjacent thereto may range from 250 nm to 1 mm.
Abstract:
Provided are a method of fabricating a semiconductor device unconstrained by optical limit and an apparatus of fabricating the semiconductor device. The method includes: forming an etch target layer on a substrate; forming a hard mask layer on the etch target layer; forming first mask patterns on the hard mask layer; forming first spacers on sidewalls of the first mask patterns; forming hard mask patterns having an opening by using the first mask patterns and the first spacers as a mask to etch the hard mask layer; aligning second mask patterns on the hard mask patterns to fill the opening; forming second spacers on sidewalls of the second mask patterns; forming fine mask patterns by using the second mask patterns and the second spacers as a mask to etch the hard mask patterns; and forming fine patterns by using the fine mask patterns as a mask to etch the etch target layer.
Abstract:
Provided is a method of tuning a resonance wavelength of a ring resonator. The method of tuning the resonance wavelength of a ring resonator includes preparing a ring resonator which contains a ring waveguide and a dielectric layer covering the ring waveguide, and heating the ring resonator to induce a refractive index phase change of the dielectric layer.
Abstract:
Provided is a silicon array waveguide grating (AWG) device comprising a silicon array waveguide in which a plurality of optical waveguides formed of a lower cladding layer, a silicon core, and an upper cladding layer are arranged, wherein the variation of the refractive index of the silicon core is positive, and the upper cladding layer is formed of polymer, the variation of refractive index of which according to temperature is negative, which is opposite to the silicon core, and the cross-section of the silicon core varies between different areas to adjust the variation of the effective refractive index of the optical waveguide according to temperature.
Abstract:
An optical filter module for wavelength multiplexing and demultiplexing and a method of manufacturing the same are provided. The optical filter module for wavelength multiplexing and demultiplexing includes: at least one or more input waveguides; an input-stage star coupler in the form of a slab waveguide connected to the input waveguides; array waveguide which is connected to the input-stage star coupler and in which a plurality of individual waveguides, each of which has an optical path having a predetermined length different to those of the other waveguides and has a heterogeneous waveguide interval formed of a material having a different refraction index from that of a core of the waveguides, are sequentially arranged; an output-stage star coupler in the form of a slab waveguide connected to the array waveguides; and at least one or more output waveguides connected to the output-stage star coupler. According to the optical filter module and the method of manufacturing the same, heterogeneous waveguide intervals having core materials different from those of conventional waveguides are introduced in predetermined areas of array waveguides, thereby reducing polarized light and temperature dependency and at the same time effectively removing optical coupling loss, which can occur at both ends of a heterogeneous waveguide interval, without an additional process of forming waveguides.
Abstract:
Provided is a silicon photonics chip that is thermally separated from a light emitting device. The silicon photonics chip includes photoelectric devices integrated on a silicon substrate. The photoelectric devices include an optical connection device optically guiding at least one signal light incident from a signal light generation device to transmit the signal light into the silicon substrate. The signal light generation device is thermally separated from the photoelectric devices, and is optically connected to the photoelectric devices.