Parra Gómez, Jorge; Olivares-Sánchez-Mellado, Irene; Brimont, Antoine Christian Jacques; Sanchis Kilders, Pablo(The Optical Society, 2019-08-15)
[EN] The lack of memory effect of silicon makes it unfeasible to store electronic data in photonics. Here we propose a nonvolatile readout photonic memory, which is electronically written/erased and optically read. The ...
[EN] Typically, materials with large optical losses such as metals are used as microheaters for silicon based thermo-optic phase shifters. Consequently, the heater must be placed far from the waveguide, which could come ...