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Integrated silicon photonic MEMS
Ecole Polytech Fed Lausanne EPFL, CH-1015 Lausanne, Switzerland.;Univ Sydney, Sch Aerosp Mech & Mechatron Engn, Camperdown, NSW 2006, Australia..
Ecole Polytech Fed Lausanne EPFL, CH-1015 Lausanne, Switzerland..
Ecole Polytech Fed Lausanne EPFL, CH-1015 Lausanne, Switzerland.;Swiss Ctr Elect & Microtechnol CSEM, CH-2002 Neuchatel, Switzerland..
KTH, School of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science (EECS), Intelligent systems, Micro and Nanosystems.ORCID iD: 0000-0002-7339-6662
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2023 (English)In: MICROSYSTEMS & NANOENGINEERING, ISSN 2055-7434, Vol. 9, no 1, article id 27Article in journal (Refereed) Published
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Silicon photonics has emerged as a mature technology that is expected to play a key role in critical emerging applications, including very high data rate optical communications, distance sensing for autonomous vehicles, photonic-accelerated computing, and quantum information processing. The success of silicon photonics has been enabled by the unique combination of performance, high yield, and high-volume capacity that can only be achieved by standardizing manufacturing technology. Today, standardized silicon photonics technology platforms implemented by foundries provide access to optimized library components, including low-loss optical routing, fast modulation, continuous tuning, high-speed germanium photodiodes, and high-efficiency optical and electrical interfaces. However, silicon's relatively weak electro-optic effects result in modulators with a significant footprint and thermo-optic tuning devices that require high power consumption, which are substantial impediments for very large-scale integration in silicon photonics. Microelectromechanical systems (MEMS) technology can enhance silicon photonics with building blocks that are compact, low-loss, broadband, fast and require very low power consumption. Here, we introduce a silicon photonic MEMS platform consisting of high-performance nano-opto-electromechanical devices fully integrated alongside standard silicon photonics foundry components, with wafer-level sealing for long-term reliability, flip-chip bonding to redistribution interposers, and fibre-array attachment for high port count optical and electrical interfacing. Our experimental demonstration of fundamental silicon photonic MEMS circuit elements, including power couplers, phase shifters and wavelength-division multiplexing devices using standardized technology lifts previous impediments to enable scaling to very large photonic integrated circuits for applications in telecommunications, neuromorphic computing, sensing, programmable photonics, and quantum computing.

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Springer Nature , 2023. Vol. 9, no 1, article id 27
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URN: urn:nbn:se:kth:diva-325757DOI: 10.1038/s41378-023-00498-zISI: 000956092800002PubMedID: 36949734Scopus ID: 2-s2.0-85150891566OAI: oai:DiVA.org:kth-325757DiVA, id: diva2:1750715
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Correction in DOI 10.1038/s41378-023-00649-2

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