IEEE Student Chapter Seminar: “NanoSilicon NanoPhotonics” - L. Pavesi
CREOL 266
Monday, December 5, 2011 / 10:30 -12pm
L. Pavesi
Nanoscience Laboratory, Department of Physics, University of Trento, via Sommarive 14, 38123 Povo (Trento) Italy
Abstract:
Silicon Photonics is no more an emerging research topic but is an actual technology with commercial products already available on the market. Quantum confinement of carriers or spatial localization of photonics allow to dramatically enhance and widen the scope and potential of silicon photonics.
After a review of silicon photonics where the state of the art is presented, the optical properties of silicon reduced to nanometric dimensions are introduced. The use of Nano-Si in silicon photonics (waveguides, modulators, switches, sources and detectors) is reviewed and discussed. Recent advances of Nano-Si devices such as bio-imagers, optical resonators (linear, rings, and disks) are treated. The development of high efficiency light emitting diodes for interchip bidirectional optical interconnects is presented as well as the recent progresses to exploit Nano-Si for solar cells. In addition, non-linear optical effects which enable fast all-optical switches are described. On the other hand, confinement of photons to small microresonators allows tuning the photon properties. Here also novel effects are found. Ultra high bandwidth robust optical switches for UDWDM, active suspended microdisk bistable devices, nonlinear optical generations are only few applications where nanophotonics can be appreciated.
Biography:
Lorenzo Pavesi is Professor of Experimental Physics at the University of Trento (Italy). Born the 21st of November 1961, he received his PhD in Physics in 1990 at the Ecole Polytechnique Federale of Lausanne (Switzerland). In 1990 he became Assistant Professor, an Associate Professor in 1999 and Full Professor in 2002 at the University of Trento. He leads the Nanoscience Laboratory, teaches several classes at the Science Faculty of the University of Trento. He founded the research activity in semiconductor optoelectronics at the University of Trento and started several laboratories of photonics, growth and advanced treatment of materials. He is the president and founder of the IEEE italian chapter on Nanotechnology. He has directed more than 20 PhD students and more than 20 Master thesis students. His research activity concerned the optical properties of semiconductors. During the last years, he concentrated on Silicon based photonics where he looks for the convergence between photonics and electronics by using silicon nanostructures or photon confinement.
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