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CMOS Compatible Optical
Leaky Wave Antennas (OLWAs) and Devices Sponsored by NSF - ECCS |
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Recent
News 2012 September: Our newest article is published on Optics Express (link here) 2012 August: We presented our latest design at the SPIE Optics and
Photonics Meeting in San Diego, CA 2012 July: We presented our research at the IEEE APS/URSI Meeting
in Chicago, IL 2012 June: Frank and Paola from Godinez
Fundamental High School joined our team 2012 May: We visited Godinez Fundamental
High School - Santa Ana, CA click here 2012 May: Eric Mannarino joined our team This
project is a collaboration between Prof. Ozdal Boyraz and Prof. Filippo Capolino from the
Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at the University of
California, Irvine.
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AIM OF THE PROJECT We explore a new route to design highly directive SOI (silicon on insulator) / CMOS compatible optical antennas, employing leaky waves that require a single feed point to the waveguide and tunable periodic semiconductor perturbations that will lead to the controlled leaky radiation. Note that having very small Si perturbations has the advantage to allow very fast electronic/optical control of the carrier generation, because carriers do not penetrate into the dielectric waveguide. We have recently found the way to enhance the tunability control (that otherwise is limited, due to small Si perturbations) embedding the OLWA in a Fabry-Perot resonator.
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