Hybrid Silicon-Organic Resonators for Optical Modulation and Filtering (English shop)

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This thesis shows that silicon resonators that are infiltrated with nonlinear polymer fulfil the requirements of modern electro-optic modulators such as a small footprint and a large modulation bandwidth. The three major challenges of this hybrid approach are addressed. The first part of this thesis shows that bleaching of a chromophore doped polymer cladding can be used as trimming mechanism in order to compensate random shifts of the resonance frequency during fabrication. In the second part it is described how electro-optically tunable photonic crystal resonantors with high quality factors can be realized. Finally the problem of low electro-optic coefficients inside the polymer for integrated silicon structures is addressed.