On the silicon-on-insulator platform, an ultra compact temperature-insensitive modulator based on a cascaded microring assistant Mach-Zehnder interferometer is proposed and demonstrated with numerical simulation. According to the calculated results, the tolerated variation of ambient temperature can be as high as 134 ℃ while the footprint of such a silicon modulator is only 340 μm2.
An ultra-compact variable optical attenuator based on slow light photonic crystal waveguide with thermo- optic effect is demonstrated. Along with power consumption of as low as 30.7 roW, a variable attenuation range of 10 dB is experimentally achieved by shifting the transmission spectrum at about 4.6 nm. The length of the ProPosed device is only 20 μm.
An optical fiber sensor for ultrathin layer sensing based o51 short-range surface plasmon polariton （SRSPP） is proposed, and the sensing characteristics are theoretically analyzed. Simulation results indicate that even for a detecting layer much thinner than the vacuum wavelength, a resolution as high as 3.7×10-6 RIU can be obtained. Moreover, an average ttfickness-detection sensitivity of 6.2 dB/nm is obtained, which enables the sensor to detect the thickness variation of the ultrathin layer up to tens of nanometers. The sensitive region of thickness could be adjusted by tuning the structure parameters.
Surface-plasmon （SP） enhancement of amorphous-silicon-nitride （a-SiNx） light emission with single-layer gold （Au） waveguides is experimentally demonstrated through time-resolved photoluminescence measure- ment. The a-SiN~ active layer with strong steady-state photoluminescence at 560 nm is prepared by plasma-enhanced chemical vapor deposition, and ricated by magnetron sputtering. The maximum the Au waveguide on the top of the a-SiNx layer is lab- Purcell factor value of -3 is achieved with identified SP resonance of the Au waveguide at -530 nm.
