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Compact Integrated Silicon Photonic Mems Power Coupler For Programmable Photonics

Niels Quack, Alain Yuji Takabayashi, Hamed Sattari

Programmable photonics promise a plethora of optical functions while at the same time reducing the time and costs of photonic integrated circuit (PIC) development. One primary bottleneck for development of these systems is the difficulty in increasing comp ...

IEEE2022

Multichannel Smart Slit Assembly For Spectroscopy Based On Arrays Of Variable Optical Mems Attenuators

Niels Quack, Anton Lagosh

We present design, fabrication and experimental characterization of a multichannel Smart Slit Assembly for next generation spectrometers, based on an array of 40 variable optical attenuators employing MEMS shutters integrated with large core multimode rect ...

IEEE2022

Development of Electrical and Optical Packaging for Silicon Photonic MEMS

Niels Quack

We demonstrate a packaging approach to integrate electrical and optical connections in silicon photonic MEMS, utilizing a custom-designed silicon interposer for routing over 118 electrical connections and a 72 channel fiber array to couple to on-chip fiber ...

Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.2024

Silicon photonic microelectromechanical phase shifters for scalable programmable photonics

Niels Quack, Alain Yuji Takabayashi, Hamed Sattari

Programmable photonic integrated circuits are emerging as an attractive platform for applications such as quantum information processing and artificial neural networks. However, current programmable circuits are limited in scalability by the lack of low-po ...

OPTICAL SOC AMER2021

Silicon Photonic Broadband Suspended Directional Coupler

Niels Quack, Alain Yuji Takabayashi, Hamed Sattari, Yu Zhang

We demonstrate a broadband Silicon Photonic directional coupler that is entirely suspended in air. The device has been fabricated in a simplified Silicon Photonics process based on the standard IMEC ISIPP5OG platform, combined with custom post-processing i ...

IEEE2019

Optical element

Niels Quack, Marcell Kristof Kiss, Gergely Huszka

The present invention concerns an optical grating comprising a body defining a first external surface and a second external surface. The first external surface defines a periodic structure comprising a plurality of elongated protrusions and a plurality of ...

2020

Mems Shutter Based Variable Optical Attenuator Integrated With Large Core Multimode Rectangular Waveguides

Niels Quack, Hamed Sattari, Gergely Huszka, Anton Lagosh

We present the concept and design, and we report on the experimental performance of a broadband Variable Optical Attenuator (VOA) for integration with large-core rectangular multimode waveguides. Operation of an individual 221 mu m x 111 mu m optical waveg ...

IEEE2021

Submicrometer Hall devices fabricated by focused electron-beam-induced deposition

Jürgen Brugger, Niels Quack, Giovanni Boero, Patrik Willi Hoffmann, Radivoje Popovic, Pavel Kejik, Schahrazede-Lila Mouaziz, Tristan Bret

Hall devices having an active area of about (500 nm)2 are fabricated by focused electron-beam-induced deposition. The deposited material consists of cobalt nanoparticles in a carbonaceous matrix. The realized devices have, at room temperature, a current se ...

2005

Micro- or nanostructured optical element

Niels Quack, Dorian Giraud Herle

A micro- or nanostructured optical element (1) is proposed comprising: a membrane (3) with an array of holes (5), the membrane (3) comprising a membrane light wave facing surface; an array of pillars (7) sized and shaped such that a respective pillar (7) i ...

2023

Method for flattening substrates or layers using 3d printing and etching

Niels Quack, Teodoro Graziosi, Marcell Kristof Kiss, Nathanaël Restori

The present invention concerns a layer or substrate flattening method comprising the steps of: - providing a layer or substrate (1) to be flattened; - measuring a topography or surface profile of at least one area (3) of the layer or substrate to be flatte ...

2021

Non-contact polishing of single crystal diamond by ion beam etching

Niels Quack, Teodoro Graziosi, Sichen Mi, Adrien Marc Toros

We propose a non-contact surface finishing method for brittle substrates by ion beam etching and we experimentally demonstrate polishing of (100) single crystal diamond surface. We model and simulate the polishing process, and verify the results experiment ...

2019

Single crystalline diamond diffractive optical elements and method of fabricating the same

Niels Quack, Teodoro Graziosi, Marcell Kristof Kiss

The present invention concerns a single crystalline diamond optical element production method. The method includes the steps of: ‐ providing a single crystalline diamond substrate or layer; ‐ applying a mask layer to the single crystalline diamond substrat ...

2019

Programmable silicon photonic circuits powered by MEMS

Niels Quack, Alain Yuji Takabayashi, Hamed Sattari

We present our work to extend silicon photonics with MEMS actuators to enable low-power, large scale programmable photonic circuits. For this, we start from the existing iSiPP50G silicon photonics platform of IMEC, where we add free-standing movable wavegu ...

SPIE-INT SOC OPTICAL ENGINEERING2022

Compact broadband suspended silicon photonic directional coupler

Niels Quack, Alain Yuji Takabayashi, Hamed Sattari, Yu Zhang

Directional couplers are extensively used in photonic integrated circuits as basic components for efficient on-chip photonic signal routing. Conventionally, directional couplers are fully encapsulated in the technology's waveguide cladding material. In thi ...

OPTICAL SOC AMER2020

CONTINUOUSLY TUNABLE SILICON PHOTONIC MEMS 2 x 2 POWER COUPLER

Niels Quack, Hamed Sattari

The integration of MEMS transducers in photonic integrated circuits provides opportunities for high efficiency photonic modulation and dynamic routing on-chip. We here present an electrostatically actuated, silicon photonic MEMS 2 x 2 power coupler, fabric ...

IEEE2021

Thermo-mechanical Noise Measurement of Sealed Nanobeams on a Silicon Photonics-MEMS Platform

Niels Quack, Alain Yuji Takabayashi

The thermal motion of a vacuum packaged, suspended nano-beam and nanophotonic waveguide on a silicon photonics-MEMS platform is measured. The resonance frequency and Q-factor of the observed mechanical modes are determined. We also experimentally estimate ...

IEEE2021

MEMS-Enabled Silicon Photonic Integrated Devices and Circuits

Niels Quack, Alain Yuji Takabayashi, Hamed Sattari, Yu Zhang

Photonic integrated circuits have seen a dramatic increase in complexity over the past decades. This development has been spurred by recent applications in datacenter communications and enabled by the availability of standardized mature technology platform ...

IEEE-INST ELECTRICAL ELECTRONICS ENGINEERS INC2020

Integrated photonic devices in single crystal diamond

Niels Quack, Teodoro Graziosi, Marcell Kristof Kiss, Sichen Mi

The field of diamond photonics is reviewed, with a focus on recent experimental demonstrations of photonic integrated devices in a single crystal diamond. This field leverages the outstanding material properties of diamond with the aim to establish large-s ...

2020

Optical Properties of Aluminium Nitride on Insulator for Integrated Photonics

Jasmin Spettel, Luis Guillermo Villanueva Torrijo, Niels Quack, Marco Liffredo, Hernán Furci

Aluminium nitride is a promising photonic material from the ultra-violet to the mid-infrared spectral range. We present spectroscopic ellipsometry of sputtered AlN thin films on insulator in the spectral range 0.19 mu m - 25 mu m, surface roughness charact ...

IEEE2022

Silicon photonic MEMS phase shifter with mu s time constant built on a foundry platform

Niels Quack, Alain Yuji Takabayashi, Hamed Sattari

MEMS enable low power tuners in silicon photonics, but existing phase shifters lack in range, speed, and loss. We implement a 2 pi phase shifter with a 1.54 mu s time constant and 0.5 dB insertion loss in IMEC's iSiPP5OG platform. ...

IEEE2021