Sánchez Diana, Luis David; Sanchis Kilders, Pablo(Optical Society of America, 2013-08-01)
A novel ultracompact (8 mu m length) hybrid silicon-plasmonic TM-TE converter is reported. The conversion is achieved during a partial power coupling between a waveguide and a hybrid plasmonic parallel waveguide. The impact ...
Lloret Soler, Juan Antonio; Morthier, Geert; Ramos Pascual, Francisco; Sales Maicas, Salvador; Van Thourhout, D.; Spuesens, T.; Olivier, N.; Fedeli, J.M.; Capmany Francoy, José(Optical Society of America, 2012)
A broadband microwave photonic phase shifter based on a single III-V microdisk resonator heterogeneously integrated on and coupled to a nanophotonic silicon-on-insulator waveguide is reported. The phase shift tunability ...
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 ...
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 ...
García-Rodríguez, David; Corral, Juan L.; Griol Barres, Amadeu; Llorente Sáez, Roberto(Optical Society of America, 2017-04-01)
The use of an integrated asymmetrical directional coupler for two-mode transmission at 1550 nm is analyzed. The design is based on silicon-on-insulator (SOI) technology and permits mode conversion and mode multiplexing/d ...
Gargallo Jaquotot, Bernardo Andrés; Muñoz Muñoz, Pascual(Optical Society of America: Open Access Journals, 2013-03-25)
In this paper, a theoretical model for an Interleave-Chirped Arrayed Waveguide Grating (IC-AWG) is presented. The model describes the operation of the device by means of a field (amplitude and phase) transfer response. The ...
Sánchez Diana, Luis David(Universitat Politècnica de València, 2017-01-23)
El silicio es la plataforma más prometedora para la integración fotónica, asegurando la compatibilidad con los procesos de fabricación CMOS y la producción en masa de dispositivos a bajo coste. Durante las últimas décadas, ...
Sánchez Fandiño, Javier Antonio; Muñoz Muñoz, Pascual(Optical Society of America, 2013-11-01)
[EN] A photonic system capable of estimating the unknown frequency of a CW microwave tone is presented. The core of the system is a complementary optical filter monolithically integrated in InP, consisting of a ring-assisted ...
Capmany Francoy, José; Mora Almerich, José; Fernández-Pousa, Carlos R.; Muñoz Muñoz, Pascual(Optical Society of America: Open Access Journals, 2013-06-17)
We develop, to the best of our knowledge, the first model for an array waveguide grating (AWG) device subject to quantum inputs and analyze its basic transformation functionalities for single-photon states. A commercial, ...
Gargallo Jaquotot, Bernardo Andrés; Muñoz Muñoz, Pascual; Baños López, Rocío; Giesecke, Anna Lena; Bolten, Jens; Wahlbrink, Thorsten; Kleinjans, Herbert(Optical Society of America: Open Access Journals, 2014-06-16)
In this paper, a model for the analysis and design of a reflective Arrayed Waveguide Grating is presented. The device consists of one half of a regular AWG where each arm waveguide in the array is terminated with a phase ...
Capmany Francoy, José; Doménech Gómez, José David; Muñoz Muñoz, Pascual(Optical Society of America: Open Access Journals, 2014-04-07)
We propose the use of silicon graphene waveguides to implement a tunable broadband microwave photonics phase shifter based on integrated ring cavities. Numerical computation results show the feasibility for broadband ...
[EN] Universal multiport photonic interferometers that can implement any arbitrary unitary transformation between input and output optical modes are essential to support advanced optical functions. Integrated versions of ...
Gutiérrez Campo, Ana María; Brimont, Antoine Christian Jacques; Herrera Llorente, Javier; Aamer, Mariam; Martí Sendra, Javier; Thomson, D. J.; Gardes, F. Y.; Reed, G. T.; Fedeli, J. M.; Sanchis Kilders, Pablo(Optical Society of America, 2012)
[EN] We describe and demonstrate experimentally a method for photonic mixing of microwave signals by using a silicon electro-optical Mach¿Zehnder modulator enhanced via slow-light propagation. Slow light with a group index ...
Gargallo-Jaquotot, Bernardo; Jiao, Y.; Munoz, P.; van der Tol, J.; Leijtens, X.(Springer Verlag (Germany), 2016-07)
[EN] We analyze the arrayed waveguide grating response on indium phosphide (InP) membranes on silicon (IMOS) technology. The model is based on an analytical approach (Kleijn et al. in Nat Photon 1:303-305, 2013) that ...
Pennec, Y.; Rouhani, B. Djafari; El Boudouti. E. H.; Li, C.; El Hassouani, Y.; Vasseur, J. O.; Papanikolaou, Nikos; Benchabane, Samir; Laude, Vincent; Martínez Abietar, Alejandro José(Optical Society of America: Open Access Journals, 2010-06-21)
[EN] We discuss the simultaneous existence of phononic and photonic band gaps in a periodic array of holes drilled in a Si membrane. We investigate in detail both the centered square lattice and the boron nitride (BN) ...
Crespo-Poveda, Antonio; Hey, R.; Biermann, K.; Tahraoui, A.; Santos, P. V.; Gargallo Jaquotot, Bernardo Andrés; Muñoz Muñoz, Pascual; Cantarero, A.; Lima, M. M. de, Jr.(Optical Society of America: Open Access Journals, 2013-09-09)
Photonic modulators are one of the most important elements of integrated photonics. We have designed, fabricated, and characterized a tunable photonic modulator consisting of two 180 degrees-dephased output waveguide ...
Mas Gómez, Sara María; Caraquitena Sales, José; Galán Conejos, José Vicente; Sanchis Kilders, Pablo; Martí Sendra, Javier(Optical Society of America: Open Access Journals, 2010-09-27)
We investigate the chromatic dispersion properties of silicon channel slot waveguides in a broad spectral region centered at similar to 1.5 mu m. The variation of the dispersion profile as a function of the slot fill factor, ...
Lloret Soler, Juan Antonio; Sancho Durá, Juan; Pu, M.; Gasulla Mestre, Ivana; Yvind, K.; Sales Maicas, Salvador; Capmany Francoy, José(Optical Society of America, 2011)
A complex-valued multi-tap tunable microwave photonic filter based on single silicon-on-insulator microring resonator is presented. The degree of tunability of the approach involving two, three and four taps is theoretical ...
Sánchez Diana, Luis David; Lechago Buendía, Sergio; Sanchis Kilders, Pablo(Optical Society of America, 2015-04-01)
[EN] Vanadium dioxide (VO2) is a metal-insulator transition (MIT) oxide recently used in plasmonics, metamaterials, and reconfigurable photonics. Because of the MIT, VO2 shows great change in its refractive index allowing ...