Silicon photonics for optical interconnects and biosensing

Speaker:Prof. Andrew Wing On Poon (HKUST)

Time and Date: 14:00- , Jul. 1, 2014

Place: Room 525, Optics Building, Handan Campus

 

 

Abstract

Silicon photonics has been flourishing over the past few years and has attracted a tremendous amount of attention from academia and industry worldwide. Despite all the hypes, silicon photonics is now maturing into a technology platform that is manufacturable using foundry services, essentially following the same model as manufacturing silicon IC chips. In this talk we will look at silicon photonics from the perspective of the speaker and his research group. We will briefly review our recent and on going works in applying silicon photonics for optical interconnects in datacenters and high-performance computing and for biosensing. Specifically, we will discuss topics including hybrid silicon microspiral disk lasers, silicon defect-states-assisted sub-bandgap photodetectors, adaptively tuned silicon microring resonators, silicon coupled-resonator optical waveguide (CROW) biosensors and (bio) particle manipulation on silicon nitride microrings. Unifying these diversified works of silicon photonics are optical microresonator technologies, and the dedication of many past and present students of the speaker.

 

 

Biography

Silicon photonics has been flourishing over the past few years and has attracted a tremendous amount of attention from academia and industry worldwide. Despite all the hypes, silicon photonics is now maturing into a technology platform that is manufacturable using foundry services, essentially following the same model as manufacturing silicon IC chips. In this talk we will look at silicon photonics from the perspective of the speaker and his research group. We will briefly review our recent and on going works in applying silicon photonics for optical interconnects in datacenters and high-performance computing and for biosensing. Specifically, we will discuss topics including hybrid silicon microspiral disk lasers, silicon defect-states-assisted sub-bandgap photodetectors, adaptively tuned silicon microring resonators, silicon coupled-resonator optical waveguide (CROW) biosensors and (bio) particle manipulation on silicon nitride microrings. Unifying these diversified works of silicon photonics are optical microresonator technologies, and the dedication of many past and present students of the speaker.