Cosmic Radiation Reduced Photo-Thermal Dispersion in Silicon Micro-Ring Resonators

Presenter Information

Lorry Chang, University of Delaware
Dun Mao, University of Delaware
Hwaseob Lee, University of Delware
Tingyi Gu, University of DelawareFollow
Anthony W. Yu, NASA Goddard Space Flight CenterFollow
Michael A. Krainak, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center
Po Dong, II-VI Incorporated

Session

Weekday Session 11: Communications

Location

Utah State University, Logan, UT

Abstract

We show post-spaceflight results for a silicon photonic integrated circuit micro-ring resonator. The free-carrier lifetime reduced by factor of 2 after radiation damage events in space.