Modeling and experimental investigation of an integrated optical microheater in silicon-on-insulator.
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...Moreover, by means of the large thermo-optic coefficient of silicon [13], the thermal modulation method has also been explored for silicon modulators, but the modulation speed was limited and the energy consumption was relatively high....
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...[21], or a p-i-n/p-n phase-shifter (to avail high-speed plasma dispersion effect) [22]....
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...heater designs are detailed elsewhere [26], [34]; we will focus only on the design of SWG waveguides to be integrated with the MZI arms and thermo-optic tuning in following subsections....
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...5 μm, thickness ∼100 nm) of length LH , directly on the slab and parallel to waveguide axis but at a safe distance so as to avoid unwanted absorption of the guided mode through evanescent field [34]....
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