Investigation of integrated photonics using 2D material MoTe2 1T' as saturable absorber in the C-band.

• Grant number: 24/08855-0
• Support Opportunities: Scholarships in Brazil - Scientific Initiation
• Start date: August 01, 2024
• End date: July 31, 2025
• Field of knowledge: Physical Sciences and Mathematics - Physics - Condensed Matter Physics
• Principal Investigator: Newton Cesario Frateschi
• Grantee: Gustavo Henrique Magro
• Host Institution: Instituto de Física Gleb Wataghin (IFGW). Universidade Estadual de Campinas (UNICAMP). Campinas , SP, Brazil
• Associated research grant: 18/25339-4 - Integrated photonics devices, AP.TEM

Abstract

Silicon Photonics is an important platform for integrating optical functions on achip. However, silicon is very limited regarding active and non-linear optical processing in gen-eral. We can then use different materials, such as mono-layers MoTe2 1T' in the same platformas a way of surpassing these difficulties. In this work, we propose to investigate the use of MoTe21T' as a saturable absorber integrated to silicon photonic structures.