U.S. Switzerland Cooperative Research: Monolithic High-speed Photoreceivers, Wavelength and Polarization Sensors on Si

这个为期三年的奖项涉及两个国家光子学研究中心的研究人员和研究生：波士顿大学的光子学中心和瑞士联邦理工学院(洛桑)新的微电子系统实验室和国家光子学研究能力中心。该项目由美国的M.Selim Unlu和瑞士的Yusuf Leblebiti和Marc Ilegems领导。这项研究的目的是在同一芯片上制作集成光电收发机，并开发通过一束光纤或单根光纤传输的输入和输出信号。这个国际合作项目将具有互补专业知识的研究人员聚集在一起。Unlu教授和他的学生致力于光电子器件的设计、制造和表征，他们在谐振腔增强型(RCE)光电探测器结构方面拥有专门的专业知识。这些结构将采用双SOI硅工艺制造。硅被公认为是电子和计算领域大规模集成的首选材料。美国的专业知识与瑞士在时钟/数据恢复(CDR)电路开发方面的经验相辅相成。研究人员建议将RCE和CDR集成在同一芯片上。预期的产品是一种商业上可行的单芯片，用于高速、光学电信和使用光纤通道的数据传输。

0201582UnluThis three-year award involves researchers and graduate students at two national centers of photonics research: Boston University's Photonics Center and the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology's (Lausanne) new Microelectronics System Laboratory and National Competence Center for Research in Photonics. The project is led by M. Selim Unlu in the US and Yusuf Leblebici and Marc Ilegems in Switzerland. The research is aimed at the fabrication on the same chip of integrated opto-electronic transreceivers, and the development of input and output signals transmitted over a bundle of optical fibers or on a single fiber. This international cooperative program brings together researchers with complementary expertise. Professor Unlu and his students work on design, fabrication and characterization of optoelectronic devices with specific expertise in resonant-cavity enhanced (RCE) photodector structures. These structures will be fabricated using double -SOI silicon process. Silicon is recognized as the material of choice for large-scale integration in electronics and computing. US expertise is complemented by Swiss experience in clock/data recovery (CDR) circuitry development. The investigators propose to integrate RCE and CDR on the same chip. The expected product is a commercially viable single chip for applications in high-speed, optical telecommunications and data transmissions using fiber channels.