Aamer, Mariam; Thomson, D. J.; Gutiérrez Campo, Ana María; Brimont, Antoine Christian Jacques; Gardes, F. Y.; Reed, G. T.; Fedeli, J. M.; Håkansson, Ola Andreas; Sanchis Kilders, Pablo(Elsevier, 2013-09-01)
[EN] We experimentally demonstrate a high-speed differential phase shift keying (DPSK) modulation using a silicon push-pull operated dual-drive Mach Zehnder modulator (MZM) based on carrier depletion. 5 Gbit/s and 10 Gbit/s ...
Rasigade, G.; Ziebell, M.; Marris-Morini, D.; Brimont, Antoine Christian Jacques; Gutiérrez Campo, Ana María; Sanchis Kilders, Pablo; Fédéli, Jean Marc; Duan, Guanghua; Cassan, E.; Vivien, L.(Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), 2011-12-01)
[EN] We report the first experimental demonstration of a silicon optical modulator based on a pipin diode integrated in a 50-mu m radius ring resonator. Large modulation efficiency was obtained with a V pi L pi product of ...
Aamer, Mariam; Gutiérrez Campo, Ana María; Brimont, Antoine Christian Jacques; Vermeulen, Diedrik; Roelkens, Gunther; Fedeli, Jean-Marc; Håkansson, Ola Andreas; Sanchis Kilders, Pablo(Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), 2012-11-15)
[EN] A polarization rotator in silicon-on-insulator technology based on breaking the symmetry of the waveguide cross section is reported. The 25-mu m-long device is designed to be integrated with standard grating couplers ...
Gutiérrez Campo, Ana María; Sanchis Kilders, Pablo; Brimont, Antoine Christian Jacques; Thomson, David J.; Gardes, Frédéric Y.; Reed, Graham T.; Fédéli, Jean Marc; Vidal Rodriguez, Borja(Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), 2013-08)
[EN] A new approach for implementing an integrable photonic microwave filter based on exploiting the asymmetry of a CMOS-compatible silicon Mach-Zehnder modulator is demonstrated. The strong dependence of the modulator ...
Sánchez Diana, Luis David; Lechago-Buendia, Sergio; Gutiérrez Campo, Ana María; Sanchis Kilders, Pablo(Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), 2016-04)
The metal-to-insulator transition (MIT) property of vanadium dioxide (VO2) has been recently used in several application fields like plasmonics, sensing, metamaterials and optical modulation. Due to the MIT nature, VO2 ...
Gutiérrez Campo, Ana María; Brimont, Antoine Christian Jacques; Herrera Llorente, Javier; Aamer, Mariam; Thomson, Dave J.; Gardes, Frederic Y.; Reed, Graham T.; Fedeli, Jean-Marc; Sanchis Kilders, Pablo(Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), 2013-12)
[EN] In this study, an analytical model for calculating the
nonlinear harmonic/intermodulation distortion for RF signals in
silicon-based electro-optic modulators is investigated by considering
the nonlinearity on the ...
Gutiérrez Campo, Ana María(Universitat Politècnica de València, 2013-02-25)
[ES] El objetivo de este trabajo es demostrar experimentalmente el funcionamiento pasivo de estructuras de onda lenta. Se han caracterizado guías corrugadas en obleas SOI con el fin de validar sus características de onda ...
[EN] Barium titanate (BaTiO3 or BTO) is currently one of the most promising ferroelectric materials for enabling Pockels modulation that is compatible with silicon photonic circuits. The relative permittivity of BTO has ...
Larrea-Luzuriaga, Roberto Alejandro; Gutiérrez Campo, Ana María; Hurtado Montañés, Juan; Ramirez, J. M.; Garrido, B.; Sanchis Kilders, Pablo(Optical Society of America, 2017-02-01)
In this Letter, we present the design, simulation (2D and 3D), fabrication, and experimental characterization of compact and fully etched focusing gratings for a horizontal slot waveguide based on a silicon nitride layer ...
[EN] The optimization of grating couplers is usually realized by multiple simulations using specific computational software for this task. Many grating parameters must be analyzed and designed to get the maximum coupling ...
Gutiérrez Campo, Ana María(Universitat Politècnica de València, 2013-11-08)
Silicon photonics is one of the most exciting and fastest growing photonic technologies
in recent years. The salient feature of this technology is its compatibility with the
mature silicon IC manufacturing based on ...
Castera Molada, Pau(Universitat Politècnica de València, 2017-09-01)
Integration of complex optical functionalities with high performance will lead to a huge development in the field of nanophotonics for a broad range of applications. Silicon photonics is currently the leading technology ...
Larrea Luzuriaga, Roberto Alejandro(Universitat Politècnica de València, 2019-01-04)
La fotónica de silicio es una de las tecnologías con más auge en las últimas dos décadas. Es por ello que el estudio y desarrollo de circuitos integrados fotónicos ha tenido una importante presencia en la investigación de ...
[EN] We propose and experimentally demonstrate the use of directional couplers with an independent phase actuator on each waveguide. We show the configurations that allow the setting of the splitting ratio and the phase ...
Castera, Pau; Gutiérrez Campo, Ana María; Tulli, Domenico; Cueff, Sébastien; Orobtchouk, Regis; Rojo Romeo, Pedro; Saint-Girons, Guillaume; Sanchis Kilders, Pablo(Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), 2016-05-01)
[EN] The influence of an in-plane multi-domain structure in BaTiO3 films grown on SrTiO3/Si buffers for highly efficient electro-optic modulation has been analyzed. The modulation performance can be significantly enhanced ...
[EN] In some STEM degrees (Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics), the interest for developing a PhD or scientific career starts at the end of 4th year course, or even during Master specialization. However, ...
[EN] A general-purpose photonic processor can be built integrating a silicon photonic programmable core in a technology stack comprising an electronic
monitoring and controlling layer and a software layer for resource ...
Rosa Escutia, Álvaro; Gutiérrez Campo, Ana María; Brimont, Antoine Christian Jacques; Griol Barres, Amadeu; Sanchis Kilders, Pablo(Optical Society of America, 2016)
Optical switches based on tunable multimode interference (MMI) couplers can simultaneously reduce the footprint and increase the tolerance against fabrication deviations. Here, a compact 2x2 silicon switch
based on a ...
Sánchez Diana, Luis David; Rosa Escutia, Álvaro; Griol Barres, Amadeu; Gutierrez Campo, Ana Maria; Homm, Pia; Van Bilzen, Bart; Menghini, Mariela; Locquet, Jean-Pierre; Sanchis Kilders, Pablo(American Institute of Physics, 2017)
[EN] The influence of an external resistance on the performance of VO2 nanogap junctions is analyzed and experimentally characterized. The current-voltage response shows the reversible metal-insulator transition typical ...
Aamer, Mariam; Griol Barres, Amadeu; Brimont, Antoine Christian Jacques; Gutiérrez Campo, Ana María; Sanchis Kilders, Pablo; Håkansson, A.(Optical Society of America, 2012)
[EN] We present an optimized design for a 10G- differential-phase-shift-keyed (DPSK) receiver based on a silicon-on-insulator (SOI) unbalanced tunable Mach-Zehnder interferometer (MZI) switch in sequence with a Mach-Zehnder ...