PROJECT TITLE :

Modeling of Radiation Effects in Silicon Photonic Devices

ABSTRACT:

The influence of high energy radiations on the performance of silicon-on-insulator photonic devices, like straight waveguides, ring resonators and Raman lasers based mostly on resonant microcavities, has been investigated theoretically within the close to infrared. The modeling is based on a generalized full-vectorial wave equation system that additionally includes deep defect rate equations. Simulation results are compared with the state-of-the-art, demonstrating a terribly sensible agreement between theoretical predictions and experiments reported in literature within the case of each ionizing and nonionizing events. Moreover, a parametric analysis is presented in order to analyze the degradation mechanisms of photonic device performance that occur below the influence of radiation bombardment.