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Type: 
Conference
Description: 
Infrared absorption photoinduced by visible light in a-SixC1-x:H is characterized by in guide pump and probe measurements in order to test its applicability to a low-cost micromodulator, fully integrable as a post-processing on-top of a standard microelectronic chip. The Photoinduced Absorption phenomenon in amorphous silicon arises from an alteration of the defect state population by decay of carriers photogenerated by visible light. These levels, deep in the gap, are strongly involved in interactions with IR radiation, and then the VIS illumination modifies their optical properties by increasing the IR absorption coefficient value. Test waveguiding devices are fabricated by Plasma Enhanced Chemical Vapour Deposition on silicon wafers, at temperatures lower than 180°C, and consist of a a-SiC:H/oxide stack. In particular, devices having a-SixC1-x:H cores with different doping and different carbon concentration are …
Publisher: 
International Society for Optics and Photonics
Publication date: 
7 Mar 2005
Authors: 

Francesco Giuseppe Della Corte, Massimo Gagliardi, Krzysztof Malecki, Maria Arcangela Nigro, Caterina Summonte

Biblio References: 
Volume: 5730 Pages: 242-249
Origin: 
Optoelectronic Integration on Silicon II