CNIC: Hybrid Microcavity-based Optical Switches and Pulsed Lasers

CNIC：基于混合微腔的光开关和脉冲激光器

• 批准号: 1263777
• 负责人: Andrea Armani
• 金额: $ 5.11万
• 依托单位: University of Southern California
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2013
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2013-05-01 至 2015-04-30
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1263777&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: CNIC; Hybrid; Microcavity; based; Optical

The goal of this CNIC proposal is to catalyze an international collaboration between the University of Southern California (USA) and KIST (Korea). The focus of the research effort is to develop an integrated optical switch and a pulsed laser based on a graphene coated silica micro-toroid resonant cavity. As a result of the extremely high non-linear coefficient of graphene and the long photon lifetime within the optical cavity, femtosecond laser pulses will be generated. This behavior can be used as an ultra-fast optical switch, among other applications. During the course of the program, graphene layers will be conformally deposited on silica toroidal microcavities as well as optical fibers. Subsequently, light will be coupled into the graphene-silica fiber and cavity, and the high frequency pulse behavior will be studied and characterized.Ultrafast optical switches have numerous applications, most notably increasing the data transfer rate of optical networks. As such, the development of an optical switch with improved performance (speed, lifetime or power consumption) will greatly impact society. The proposal will enable a graduate student to spend time abroad in the collaborator's research group in Korea, immersed in their lab. The outreach effort supported by this CNIC proposal includes recruiting undergraduate students to participate in year-long research projects, and incorporating research experience in an undergraduate course. This CNIC award is funded by the International Science and Engineering section (OIIA/ISE) with co-funding from the Electrical, Communications and Cyber Systems division of Engineering (ENG/ECCS).

该CNIC提案的目标是促进南加州大学（美国）和KIST（韩国）之间的国际合作。研究工作的重点是开发一个集成的光开关和脉冲激光器的基础上，石墨烯涂层的二氧化硅微环谐振腔。由于石墨烯极高的非线性系数和光腔内长的光子寿命，将产生飞秒激光脉冲。这种特性可以用作超快速光开关以及其他应用。在该计划的过程中，石墨烯层将保形沉积在二氧化硅环形微腔以及光纤上。随后，光将被耦合到石墨烯-石英光纤和腔中，并将研究和表征高频脉冲行为。超快光开关有许多应用，最显着的是提高光网络的数据传输速率。因此，具有改进性能（速度、寿命或功耗）的光开关的开发将极大地影响社会。该提案将使研究生能够在韩国的合作者研究小组中度过一段时间，沉浸在他们的实验室中。该CNIC提案支持的外联工作包括招募本科生参加为期一年的研究项目，并将研究经验纳入本科课程。该奖项由国际科学与工程部（OIIA/伊势）资助，并由电气，通信和网络系统工程部（ENG/ECCS）共同资助。