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Integrated NiSi waveguide heaters for CMOS-compatible silicon thermo-optic devices

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We report the performance of NiSi-based heaters integrated with submicrometer silicon waveguides. The heaters were fabricated using a standard complementary metal-oxide-semiconductor (CMOS) silicidation process on a thin silicon slab laterally connected with a silicon rib waveguide. The intrinsic properties of such NiSi waveguide heaters were characterized by using them as thermo-optic phase shifters in a Mach–Zehnder interferometer. The power consumption Pπ for obtaining a π phase shift was measured to be as low as 20 mW, using CMOS-compatible drive voltages. The time constant of the thermo-optic response was less than 2.8μs. Simulations suggest that a further reduction in the power consumption Pπ is feasible.

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