TY - JOUR A1 - Steglich, Patrick A1 - Villringer, Claus A1 - Dietzel, Birgit A1 - Mai, Christian A1 - Schrader, Sigurd A1 - Casalboni, Mauro A1 - Mai, Andreas T1 - On-Chip Dispersion Measurement of the Quadratic Electro-Optic Effect in Nonlinear Optical Polymers Using a Photonic Integrated Circuit Technology JF - IEEE Photonics Journal N2 - A novel method to determine the dispersion of the quadratic electro-optic effect in nonlinear optical materials by using a silicon-on-insulator microring resonator is presented. The microring consists of a silicon slot waveguide enabling large dc electric field strength at low applied voltages. The dispersion of third-order hyperpolarizability of a linear conjugated dye is approximated by using a two-level model for the off-resonant spectral region. As an example, the dispersion of the resonance wavelength of the resonator filled with a dye doped polymer was measured in dependence of the applied dc voltage. The polymer was poly (methylmethacrylate) doped with 5 wt% disperse red 1 (DR1), and the measurements have been carried out at the telecommunication wavelength band around 1550 nm (optical C-band). The described measurements represent a new technique to determine the dispersion of the third-order susceptibility and molecular hyperpolarizability of the material filled into the slot of the ring-resonator. KW - electro-optical device KW - nonlinear optics KW - integrated optics KW - integrated optics material KW - optical material KW - integrated optics device KW - polymer active device Y1 - 2019 U6 - http://nbn-resolving.de/urn/resolver.pl?urn:nbn:de:kobv:526-opus4-12307 SN - 1943-0655 VL - 11 IS - 3 ER - TY - CHAP A1 - Steglich, Patrick A1 - Villringer, Claus A1 - Dümecke, Silvio A1 - Padilla-Michel, Yazmin A1 - Casalboni, Mauro A1 - Schrader, Sigurd T1 - Silicon-On-Insulator Slot-Waveguide Design Trade-Offs T2 - Proceedings of the 3rd International Conference on Photonics, Optics and Laser Technology : vol. 2 N2 - Silicon-on-insulator slot-waveguide structures are designed and analysed numerically. We present our theoretical investigation of field confinement factors and effective nonlinear areas for different waveguide structures in order to find optimized geometrical dimensions. It is shown that a slot-waveguide with a height of 220 nm, a slot width of 180 nm and a silicon rail width of 180 nm provides a five times higher field confinement in the cladding region compared to conventional strip-waveguides which explains the high sensitivity of slotwaveguide based label-free bio-sensors. KW - slot waveguide KW - silicon-organic hybrid technology KW - optical field confinement KW - effective nonlinear area Y1 - 2015 U6 - http://nbn-resolving.de/urn/resolver.pl?urn:nbn:de:kobv:526-opus4-20104 SP - 47 EP - 52 PB - SciTePress CY - Setúbal ER - TY - CHAP A1 - Steglich, Patrick A1 - Mai, Christian A1 - Stolarek, David A1 - Lischke, Stefan A1 - Kupijai, Sebastian A1 - Villringer, Claus A1 - Pulwer, Silvio A1 - Heinrich, Friedhelm A1 - Bauer, Joachim A1 - Meister, Stefan A1 - Knoll, Dieter A1 - Casalboni, Mauro A1 - Schrader, Sigurd T1 - Partially slotted silicon ring resonator covered with electro-optical polymer T2 - Proceedings of SPIE N2 - In this work, we present for the first time a partially slotted silicon ring resonator (PSRR) covered with an electro-optical polymer (Poly[(methyl methacrylate)-co-(Disperse Red 1 acrylate)]). The PSRR takes advantage of both a highly efficient vertical slot waveguide based phase shifter and a low loss strip waveguide in a single ring. The device is realized on 200 mm silicon-on-insulator wafers using 248 nm DUV lithography and covered with the electro-optic polymer in a post process. This silicon-organic hybrid ring resonator has a small footprint, high optical quality factor, and high DC device tunability. A quality factor of up to 105 and a DC device tunability of about 700 pm/V is experimentally demonstrated in the wavelength range of 1540 nm to 1590 nm. Further, we compare our results with state-of-the-art silicon-organic hybrid devices by determining the poling efficiency. It is demonstrated that the active PSRR is a promising candidate for efficient optical switches and tunable filters. Y1 - 2016 U6 - http://nbn-resolving.de/urn/resolver.pl?urn:nbn:de:kobv:526-opus4-13771 SN - 1996-756X ER - TY - GEN A1 - Steglich, Patrick A1 - Villringer, Claus A1 - Pulwer, Silvio A1 - Bauer, Joachim A1 - Heinrich, Friedhelm A1 - Casalboni, Mauro A1 - Schrader, Sigurd T1 - Advanced Nanophotonics: Silicon-Organic Hybrid Technology T2 - Wissenschaftliche Beiträge 2016 N2 - Integrated photonic devices have gained increasing research interests. Especially silicon photonics have become very attractive for various optical applications. Using silicon-on-insulator as a material platform provides the ability to fabricate photonic devices with electronic devices on a single chip. Driven by substantial research investments, the integration of photonic devices on silicon-on-insulator substrates has reached a degree of maturity that already permits industrial adoption. However, silicon has the disadvantage of linear electro-optical effects, and, therefore, advanced modulation formats are difficult to realize when using silicon-based high-speed modulators. Hence, a new approach was proposed: the silicon-organic hybrid technology. This technology is a viable extension of the silicon-on-insulator material system for efficient high-speed modulation. We herewith present our theoretical and experimental investigations of the silicon-organic hybrid slot-waveguide ring resonator. The advanced device design is described in detail, which allows using both, the efficient silicon-on-insulator strip-waveguides and the silicon-organic hybrid slot-waveguides in single ring resonator. For the first time, we report the transmission spectra of such a resonator covered with an electro-optical polymer. N2 - Integrierte photonische Bauelemente werden in der Forschung immer bedeutender. Besonders die Siliziumphotonik ist für verschiedene optische Anwendungen sehr attraktiv. Die Verwendung von Silizium-auf-Isolator-Materialsystemen bietet die Möglichkeit, photonische Bauelemente mit elektronischen Geräten auf einem einzelnen Chip zu entwickeln. Durch erhebliche Forschungsinvestitionen hat die photonische Integration auf Silizium-auf-Isolator-Substraten einen Reifegrad, der bereits Industriemaßstäben genügt. Jedoch hat Silizium keinen linearen elektrooptischen Effekt und damit sind moderne Modulationsformate nur schwierig zu realisieren. Daher wird seit eingen Jahren ein neuer Ansatz, die Silizium-Organik Hybridtechnologie, verfolgt. Diese Technologie ist eine tragfähige Ausdehnung des Silizium-auf-Isolator-Materialsystems für eine effiziente Hochgeschwindigkeitsmodulation und optische Signalverarbeitung. In diesem Artikel präsentieren wir unsere theoretischen und experimentellen Untersuchungen zu einem Silizium-Organik Hybrid Ringresonator. Das Design und die Herstellung des neuartigen nanophotonischen Bauelements werden im Detail beschrieben. Der demonstrierte Ringresonator kombiniert die Vorteile zweier verschiedener Wellenleiterarten in einem einzelnen Ring, dem verlustarmen Kanal-Wellenleiter und dem Silizium-organischen Hybridschlitzwellenleiter. Wir demonstrieren erstmals ein Transmissionsspektrum eines solchen Ringresonators, der mit einem elektro-optischen Polymer beschichtet ist. Y1 - 2016 U6 - http://nbn-resolving.de/urn/resolver.pl?urn:nbn:de:kobv:526-opus4-5337 SN - 0949-8214 VL - 20 SP - 45 EP - 48 ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Steglich, Patrick A1 - Mai, Christian A1 - Villringer, Claus A1 - Dietzel, Birgit A1 - Bondarenko, Siegfried A1 - Ksianzou, Viachaslau A1 - Villasmunta, Francesco A1 - Zesch, Christoph A1 - Pulwer, Silvio A1 - Burger, Martin A1 - Bauer, Joachim A1 - Heinrich, Friedhelm A1 - Schrader, Sigurd A1 - Vitale, Francesco A1 - De Matteis, Fabio A1 - Prosposito, Paolo A1 - Casalboni, Mauro A1 - Mai, Andreas T1 - Silicon-organic hybrid photonics: an overview of recent advances, electro-optical effects and CMOS integration concepts JF - Journal of Physics: Photonics N2 - In recent decades, much research effort has been invested in the development of photonic integrated circuits, and silicon-on-insulator technology has been established as a reliable platform for highly scalable silicon-based electro-optical modulators. However, the performance of such devices is restricted by the inherent material properties of silicon. An approach to overcoming these deficiencies is to integrate organic materials with exceptionally high optical nonlinearities into a silicon-on-insulator photonic platform. Silicon–organic hybrid photonics has been shown to overcome the drawbacks of silicon-based modulators in terms of operating speed, bandwidth, and energy consumption. This work reviews recent advances in silicon–organic hybrid photonics and covers the latest improvements to single components and device concepts. Special emphasis is given to the in-device performance of novel electro-optical polymers and the use of different electro-optical effects, such as the linear and quadratic electro-optical effect, as well as the electric-field-induced linear electro-optical effect. Finally, the inherent challenges of implementing non-linear optical polymers on a silicon photonic platform are discussed and a perspective for future directions is given. Y1 - 2021 U6 - http://nbn-resolving.de/urn/resolver.pl?urn:nbn:de:kobv:526-opus4-13882 SN - 2515-7647 VL - 3 IS - 2 ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Steglich, Patrick A1 - Mai, Christian A1 - Villringer, Claus A1 - Pulwer, Silvio A1 - Casalboni, Mauro A1 - Schrader, Sigurd A1 - Mai, Andreas T1 - Quadratic electro-optic effect in silicon-organic hybrid slot-waveguides JF - Optics Letters N2 - This Letter reports on the quadratic electro-optic effect of polymers, observed in a silicon slot-waveguide at low voltages. We demonstrate that in narrow slots, the electro-optic response with respect to refractive index change is strong enough for on-chip wavelength tuning and intensity modulation using voltages as low as 1 V. A silicon slot-waveguide embedded by a nonlinear optical polymer, consisting of the dye Disperse Red 1 in poly(methyl methacrylate), serves as the phase shifter in a racetrack ring resonator. As deduced from the experimental data, the third-order susceptibility of the utilized electro-optic polymer is about 2·10−19 m2/V2. The demonstrated low-voltage operation and inherently thermal stability show the potential for silicon-organic hybrid devices using the quadratic electro-optic effect. Y1 - 2018 U6 - http://nbn-resolving.de/urn/resolver.pl?urn:nbn:de:kobv:526-opus4-12148 SN - 1539-4794 VL - 43 IS - 15 ER -