Publications by Alain Yuji Takabayashi

Volatile and non-volatile nano-electromechanical switches fabricated in a CMOS-compatible silicon-on-insulator foundry process

Nanoelectromechanical (NEM) switches have the advantages of zero leakage current, abrupt switching characteristics, and harsh environmental capabilities. This makes them a promising component for digital computing circuits when high energy efficiency under ...

2025

Efficient Low‐Voltage Phase Shifter with Inkjet‐Printed Liquid Crystal on a Silicon on Insulator Platform

Niels Quack, Alain Yuji Takabayashi

A new electro‐optic phase shifter device architecture consisting of two lateral rail electrodes in doped silicon close to a waveguide with a liquid crystal cladding is demonstrated. Starting with a completed silicon photonics wafer of IMEC's iSiPP50G platf ...

Wiley2025

A compact 2 × 2 optical gate using a silicon photonic MEMS dual-drive directional coupler

Niels Quack, Alain Yuji Takabayashi

Reconfigurable optical gates control power and phase in programmable photonic circuits. However, state-of-the-art optical gates are power-hungry due to using heaters and large due to using Mach-Zehnder Interferometers. Here, we demonstrate a compact low-po ...

SPIE2025

A MEMS tunable phase monitor with integrated photodiode read-out for silicon photonic circuits

Niels Quack, Alain Yuji Takabayashi

Electrostatic MEMS provide low power consumption to programmable photonics. However, the scaling of programmable photonics also requires solutions for circuit monitoring. We demonstrate a MEMS tunable phase monitor with integrated read-out on a foundry pla ...

Optical Society of America2023

Fully reconfigurable MEMS-based second-order coupled-resonator optical waveguide (CROW) with ultra-low tuning energy

Niels Quack, Alain Yuji Takabayashi

Integrated microring resonators are well suited for wavelength-filtering applications in optical signal processing, and cascaded microring resonators allow flexible filter design in coupledresonator optical waveguide (CROW) configurations. However, the imp ...

Optica Publishing Group2023

Vacuum-sealed silicon photonic MEMS tunable ring resonator with an independent control over coupling and phase

Niels Quack, Alain Yuji Takabayashi

Ring resonators are a vital element for filters, optical delay lines, or sensors in silicon photonics. However, reconfigurable ring resonators with low-power consumption are not available in foundries today. We demonstrate an add-drop ring resonator with t ...

Optica Publishing Group2023

Integrated 4-terminal single-contact nanoelectromechanical relays implemented in a silicon-on-insulator foundry process

Niels Quack, Alain Yuji Takabayashi

Integrated nanoelectromechanical (NEM) relays can be used instead of transistors to implement ultra-low power logic circuits, due to their abrupt turn off characteristics and zero off-state leakage. Further, realizing circuits with 4-terminal (4-T) NEM rel ...

Royal Soc Chemistry2023

Integrated silicon photonic MEMS

Niels Quack, Hamed Sattari, Alain Yuji Takabayashi

Silicon photonics has emerged as a mature technology that is expected to play a key role in critical emerging applications, including very high data rate optical communications, distance sensing for autonomous vehicles, photonic-accelerated computing, and ...

SPRINGERNATURE2023

MORPHIC: MEMS enhanced silicon photonics for programmable photonics

Niels Quack, Hamed Sattari, Alain Yuji Takabayashi

We present our work in the European project MORPHIC to extend an established silicon photonics platform with low-power and non-volatile micro-electromechanical (MEMS) actuators to demonstrate large-scale programmable photonic integrated circuits (PICs). ...

SPIE-INT SOC OPTICAL ENGINEERING2022

Wafer-level hermetically sealed silicon photonic MEMS

Niels Quack, Hamed Sattari, Alain Yuji Takabayashi

The emerging fields of silicon (Si) photonic micro-electromechanical systems (MEMS) and optomechanics enable a wide range of novel high-performance photonic devices with ultra-low power consumption, such as integrated optical MEMS phase shifters, tunable c ...

CHINESE LASER PRESS2022