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2022 Roadmap on integrated quantum photonics

Niels Quack, Christophe Marcel Georges Galland

Integrated photonics will play a key role in quantum systems as they grow from few-qubit prototypes to tens of thousands of qubits. The underlying optical quantum technologies can only be realized through the integration of these components onto quantum ph ...

IOP Publishing Ltd2022

Programmable silicon photonic circuits powered by MEMS

Niels Quack, Hamed Sattari, Alain Yuji Takabayashi

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

A Bistable Silicon Photonic Mems Phase Switch For Nonvolatile Photonic Circuits

Niels Quack, Alain Yuji Takabayashi

Silicon photonic circuits are rapidly growing in complexity and spreading to new applications. However, programmable circuits consume much power and require active electrical interfaces. For the first time, we demonstrate a nonvolatile photonic MEMS pi-pha ...

IEEE2022

Low power optical phase shifter using liquid crystal actuation on a silicon photonics platform

Niels Quack, Alain Yuji Takabayashi

Low-power and compact phase shifters are crucial for large photonic circuits, both to cope with variability and to create programmable waveguide circuits scaling to thousands of tuning elements. This work demonstrates a liquid crystal phase shifter where a ...

Optica Publishing Group2022

Silicon photonic microelectromechanical systems add-drop ring resonator in a foundry process

Niels Quack, Hamed Sattari, Alain Yuji Takabayashi

Photonic add-drop filters are crucial components for the implementation of wavelength division multiplexing (WDM) in fiber-optic communication systems. The recent progress in photonic integration has shown the potential to integrate photonic add-drop filte ...

SPIE-SOC PHOTO-OPTICAL INSTRUMENTATION ENGINEERS2022

Smart Slit Assembly Employing Continuously Tunable MEMS Shutter

Niels Quack, Hamed Sattari, Gergely Huszka, Anton Lagosh, Benedikt Guldimann

We present the concept and detailed design of a Smart Slit Assembly for next generation spectrometers, and we experimentally demonstrate operation of an individual 221 mu m x 111 mu m smart slit channel employing a MEMS actuated shutter to continuously mod ...

SPIE-INT SOC OPTICAL ENGINEERING2021

Silicon Photonic MEMS Add-Drop Filter

Niels Quack, Hamed Sattari, Alain Yuji Takabayashi

We demonstrate a compact add-drop filter based on a MEMS ring resonator implemented in IMEC's iSiPP50G silicon photonics platform. The device exhibits a port extinction of 20 dB and a port isolation of > 50 dB, upon actuation range of 0 V to 27 V. ...

IEEE2021

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

Broadband Compact Single-Pole Double-Throw Silicon Photonic MEMS Switch

Niels Quack, Hamed Sattari, Alain Yuji Takabayashi

Photonic Integrated Circuits (PICs) benefit from the technology advances in the semiconductor industry to incorporate an ever-increasing number of photonic components on a single chip to create large-scale photonic integrated circuits. We here present a br ...

Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers2021

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

Niels Quack, Hamed Sattari, Gergely Huszka, Anton Lagosh, Benedikt Guldimann

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

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