Collaborative Research: Laser Treated Sol-Gel Glass for Ultra-High-Quality Photonic Devices

合作研究：用于超高品质光子器件的激光处理溶胶-凝胶玻璃

• 批准号: 0907638
• 负责人: Amy Shen
• 金额: $ 29.45万
• 依托单位: University of Washington
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2009
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2009-06-15 至 2014-06-30
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=0907638&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Collaborative; Research; Laser; Treated; Sol; Collaborative; Research; Laser; Treated; Sol

Technical: This project, funded by the Electronic and Photonic Materials (EPM) and Ceramics (CER) Programs, is to investigate a laser enhanced, flow and evaporation-induced self-assembly (FEISA) approach to synthesize sol-gel materials and ring-shape micro-resonators for ultra-high-quality photonic devices on silicon. The research combines experimental and theoretical activities in photonics, complex fluids dynamics, and sol-gel synthesis to (a) develop the laser-enhanced, sol-gel-FEISA glass as a novel material; (b) study the optical gain generation in various sol-gel-FEISA glass resonators; and (c) probe and characterize the optical functions of ultra-high-quality micro-resonators by using the materials fabricated in (a). The research focuses on micro-resonators as a benchmark system and investigates optical gain enhanced phenomena, such as nonlinear optics, lasing and plasmonics. The research is expected to impact the design and synthesis of novel photonic materials capable of generating optical gain for nonlinear optics at low light level and ultra-low-threshold microlasers on a silicon wafer with emission covering a wide spectral window from ultraviolet to near infrared. This is a collaborative research project that includes scientists at the Washington University and University of Washington with complementary expertise.Non-technical: The project addresses basic research issues in a topical area of materials and optical sciences with high technological relevance. The success of the project can lead to a route to achieve high-performance photonic devices on a silicon wafer. Through the project, Ph. D. and undergraduate students are trained in a multi-disciplinary environment that includes photonics, materials science, nano-fabrication, and applied physics. The discoveries from this project will be disseminated through publication in scientific journals, as well as wiki pages and videos on the project webpage for education purpose.

技术：该项目由电子和光子材料（EPM）和陶瓷（CER）程序资助，是为了研究激光增强，流动和蒸发诱导的自组装方法（FEISA）方法，以合成Sol-Gel材料和环形微谐振器，用于在Silicon上使用超高质量光子设备。该研究将光子学，复杂流体动力学和溶胶 - 凝胶合成中的实验性和理论活动结合在一起（a）将激光增强的，溶胶 - 凝胶 - 丝 - 弗利玻璃玻璃作为一种新型材料； （b）研究各种Sol-Gel-Feisa玻璃谐振器中的光学增益产生； （c）通过使用（a）中构造的材料，探测和表征超高微谐振器的光学功能。该研究的重点是微谐振器作为基准系统，并研究了光学增益增强现象，例如非线性光学元件，激光和等离子体学。这项研究有望影响能够在低光水平下为非线性光学物质产生光学增益的新型光子材料的设计和合成，而在硅晶片上具有超低阈值微叠层剂，其发射覆盖了从紫外线到接近红外的宽光谱窗口。这是一个合作研究项目，其中包括华盛顿大学和华盛顿大学具有互补专业知识的科学家。《 Non-technical：该项目》涉及具有高技术相关性的材料和光学科学领域的基础研究问题。该项目的成功可能会导致在硅晶圆上实现高性能光子设备的途径。通过该项目，在包括光子学，材料科学，纳米制作和应用物理学在内的多学科环境中对博士和本科生进行了培训。该项目的发现将通过科学期刊的出版物以及项目网页上的Wiki页面和视频进行传播。