Silicon Photonics Group Research Highlights
High efficiency grating couplers reported (2000, 2005)
Polarisation independent ring resonator filters demonstrated (2004)
Depletion modulator proposed (2005)
Free standing waveguides fabricated and measured (2006)
Polarisation independent depletion modulator proposed (2006)
Largest FSR in ring resonators of 63 nm measured (2007)
Waveguide structures for the mid-infrared proposed and fabricated (2007,
2008)
LOCOS low loss waveguides demonstrated (2008)
Modelling of single mode and polarisation independent waveguides (2008)
Reduction of free carrier lifetime by ion implantation (2008)
Current Projects
UK Si Photonics (EPSRC)
Mid-infrared Silicon Photonics (Royal Society)
Compact Si Photonic Devices (Royal Society)
Optical filters (Intel & IeMRC)
EPSRC studentships
Other studentships