Liquid crystal phase shifter on the SOH platform with ultra-low power consumption
- Resource Type
- Conference
- Authors
- Alloatti, Luca; Pfeifle, Joerg; Mendez, Jorge; Freude, Wolfgang; Leuthold, Juerg; Koos, Christian
- Source
- OFC/NFOEC Optical Fiber Communication Conference and Exposition (OFC/NFOEC), 2012 and the National Fiber Optic Engineers Conference. :1-3 Mar, 2012
- Subject
- Photonics and Electrooptics
Communication, Networking and Broadcast Technologies
Components, Circuits, Devices and Systems
Computing and Processing
Fields, Waves and Electromagnetics
Signal Processing and Analysis
Optical waveguides
Liquid crystals
Silicon
Phase shifters
Optical device fabrication
Strips
Optical filters
- Language
A silicon phase shifter with V π L = 0.085 Vmm and nW-power consumption is demonstrated. The device exploits slot-waveguides filled with liquid crystals. A drive voltage of 5 V leads to a 35 π phase shift.