About the project
The project will comprise of the design of silicon and germanium based phase shifters and optical modulators by incorporation of different materials with Si or Ge to improve the phase shifter and modulator efficiency.
Efficient phase shifters and optical modulators are crucial devices for communications, programmable photonic circuits and sensing applications, including LiDAR. These devices will be fabricated, characterised at a range of different wavelengths, and eventually integrated in transmitters, transceivers and sensors in the state-of-the-art Zepler Institute facilities.
There will be an intensive collaboration with several colleagues from the Optoelectronics Research Centre (ORC) and Chemistry where materials such as BTO and PZT will be grown on Si/Ge, as well as from industry.
