High-speed Cryogenics-enabling Electro-Optic Characterization System for Nanophotonic/Nanoelectronic Devices and Components
Abstract
We request instrumentation that will enable the generation of high-speed RF signals for characterization of the high-speed operation of ultra-fast nanolasers and high-speed adaptive receivers (HSARs) operating at regulated temperatures. Specifically, the requested equipment (i.e., Lakeshore cryogenic high-bandwidth probe station; KeysightÕs narrow pulse generator and 9kHz-20GHz signal synthesizer; and Allied Electronics high speed oscilloscope) will facilitate research pertaining to (1) the design, fabrication and testing of ultra-fast tunable, intensity-modulated nanolasers and their arrays in a wide temperature range; (2) the design, fabrication and testing of fast tunable HSARs and their arrays; and (3) the development of a novel setup with cryogenic operation capabilities to characterize the nanolasers and HSARs operating in pulsed regime (i.e. the data modulated regime) by exploiting the second-order intensity correlation technique. The requested instrumentation will support the DoD funded projects: ÒOptoelectronic Technology for Nanosecond WDM-based Chip-scale Optical Networking,Ó ARO Program; ÒNear-Field Nanophotonics for Energy Efficient Computing and Communication (NECom),Ó and ÒOptical and Optoelectronic Computing,Ó ONR/UCSD and ONR/U of Arizona MURI programs, respectively. UCSDÕs Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering (ECE) and California Institute for Telecommunications and Information Technologies (CalIT2) administration, are committed to Nanophotonics, Nanoplasmonics, Brain Imaging and Quantum Optics research. The equipment will be installed and shared between the Chip-scale Photonics Testing Facility (CPTF) which is part of the San Diego Nanotechnology Infrastructure (SDNI) housed at the Qualcomm Institute and supported by NSFÕs National Nanotechnology Coordinated Infrastructure (NNCI) and the Ultrafast and Nanoscale Optics Laboratory in the Department of ECE. This will enhance the research capabilities of the entire UCSD campus and strengthen the SDNI node of the NNCI network as a whole. It will also benefit other current and future DoD-funded efforts at UCSD and throughout the nation as a consequence of the open nature of the SDNI/NNCI. Graduate students will benefit from experimental skills in characterization tools of nanotechnology that they will develop by using the requested instrumentation.
Document Details
- Document Type
- DoD Grant Award
- Publication Date
- Feb 14, 2019
- Source ID
- W911NF1810391
Entities
People
- Yeshaiahu Fainman
Organizations
- Army Contracting Command
- United States Army
- University of California, San Diego