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Opt Lett
; 49(15): 4338-4341, 2024 Aug 01.
Artigo
em Inglês
| MEDLINE
| ID: mdl-39090928
RESUMO
We proposed a 2D 1 × 64 silicon optical phased array with a backside silicon-etched structure to achieve high tuning efficiency and a wide longitudinal steering range. At the radiator array, the n-i-n heater was implemented to steer the light in a longitudinal direction through the thermo-optic effect. The deep reactive ion etching process was utilized to generate the 600â µm depth air trench with a 1.8â cm2 area from the backside of the radiator array. We achieved almost 100% increment in terms of tuning efficiency, which is 1.56°/W for the proposed structure and 0.78°/W for the conventional structure.