Overordnede kursusmål
The course aims at introducing all around basic components
(physical concept, equipment and software) from design to
fabrication and characterization of silica/silicon optical planar
waveguide components through hands-on experience
Læringsmål
En studerende, der fuldt ud har opfyldt kursets mål, vil kunne:
- Work confidently in the cleanroom
- Select proper material platform for different applications in
integrated optics
- Design processing flows for device fabrication
- Interpret and optimize key processing steps in the fabrication
of waveguide components
- Align fibers with nanoscale waveguides efficiently
- Handle chips and fibres with skills of dicing, cleaning and
cleaving etc.
- Set up simple optical measurements
- Do component simulation and mask layout by using commercial
softwares
- Describe working principles of waveguide components
- Apply knowledges to current waveguide components research and
application
Kursusindhold
• Learn rules of working in the cleanroom
• Get familiar with key processings in the cleanroom, including
film deposition, lithography and etching
• Build models of waveguides to simulate effective refractive
index, coupling loss etc using commercial software
• Make mask layout using commercial software L-edit
• Do electron-beam lithography, including resist spin, e-beam
exposure and developing
• Operate ''advanced silicon etcher '' (ASE) and
edit recipes for silicon etching
• Investigate the nanoscale features using scanning electron
microscope (SEM)
• Couple light in and out of waveguide components on 3-dimentional
stages by tapered fibers
• Set up simple measurement circuits including light source,
polarization controller and optical spectral analyzer (OSA) to
measure propagation loss of straight waveguide by cutback method
• Setup OSA correctly with regard to resolution, sensitivity,
average, sampling, and configure OSA and TLS to work in
synchronization
• Measure silicon micro-ring resonators and analyze the difference
between the design and the measured values
Sidst opdateret
01. maj, 2018