Author Affiliations
Abstract
1 Qaleido Photonics, Hangzhou 310000, China
2 International Quantum Academy, Shenzhen 518048, China
3 Shenzhen Institute for Quantum Science and Engineering, Southern University of Science and Technology, Shenzhen 518055, China
4 Department of Optics and Optical Engineering, University of Science and Technology of China, Hefei 230026, China
5 Key Laboratory of Specialty Fiber Optics and Optical Access Networks, Shanghai University, Shanghai 200444, China
6 Key Laboratory of Radar Imaging and Microwave Photonics, Ministry of Education, Nanjing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics, Nanjing 210016, China
7 Hefei National Laboratory, University of Science and Technology of China, Hefei 230088, China
The foundry development of integrated photonics has revolutionized today’s optical interconnect and datacenters. Over the last decade, we have witnessed the rising of silicon nitride (Si3N4) integrated photonics, which is currently transferring from laboratory research to foundry manufacturing. The development and transition are triggered by the ultimate need for low optical loss offered by Si3N4, which is beyond the reach of silicon and III-V semiconductors. Combined with modest Kerr nonlinearity, tight optical confinement, and dispersion engineering, Si3N4 has today become the leading platform for linear and Kerr nonlinear photonics, and it has enabled chip-scale lasers featuring ultralow noise on par with table-top fiber lasers. However, so far all the reported fabrication processes of tight-confinement, dispersion-engineered Si3N4 photonic integrated circuits (PICs) with optical loss down to few dB/m have only been developed on 4-inch (100 mm diameter) or smaller wafers. Yet, to transfer these processes to established CMOS foundries that typically operate 6-inch or even larger wafers, challenges remain. In this work, we demonstrate the first foundry-standard fabrication process of Si3N4 PICs with only 2.6 dB/m loss, thickness above 800 nm, and near 100% fabrication yield on 6-inch (150 mm diameter) wafers. Such thick and ultralow-loss Si3N4 PIC enables low-threshold generation of soliton frequency combs. Merging with advanced heterogeneous integration, active ultralow-loss Si3N4 integrated photonics could pave an avenue to addressing future demands in our increasingly information-driven society.
Photonics Research
2023, 11(4): 558
Author Affiliations
Abstract
Department of Precision Machinery and Precision Instrumentation, University of Science and Technology of China, Hefei 230026, China
Micro stereo lithography is a kind of technology utilizing the solidified effect that photo curable polymer will appear under ultraviolet (UV) laser exposure. It is widely used in three-dimensional (3D) micro fabrication. We get the experimental values of a pair of UV laser curing coefficients, absorption coefficient and critical curing energy, of curable resin by fitting the calculation results of the Gaussian beam theory and experimental curing results. The theoretical relation between the curing unit’s shape and the exposure features of time and intensity of convergent Gaussian beam is presented. The calculation and experimental results of curing unit under different conditions agree well with each other. This research offers a steady base for further research about the improvement of resolution.
微细光成型模拟固化单元 220.3740 Lithography 220.4000 Microstructure fabrication 220.4610 Optical fabrication 
Chinese Optics Letters
2009, 7(8): 08724

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