Opportunities for low cost processing of erbium 8-quinolinolates for active integrated photonic applications

Erbium-doped organic emitters are promising active materials for Photonic Integrated Circuits (PICs) due to their emission shown at 1550 nm combined to the potential low cost processing. In particular, Erbium Quinoline (ErQ) gained a strong interest in the last decade for the good emission efficiency. This contribution reports the results derived from the application of ErQ as active core material within a buried optical waveguide, following the development of a purposed optical process to control the refractive index of ErQ and then to define a patterned structure from a single thin film deposition step. The reported results show the potential of Er-doped organic materials for low cost processing and application to planar PICs

Perovskite photo-detectors (PVSK-PDs) for visible light communication

Visible Light Communication technology has the potential to become a leading actor in the future 5G network, thanks to features such as efficient “re-use of re-sources”, native privacy security and human safeness (compared to radio-frequency applications). Among the several configurations achievable to realize a VLC link, the use of innovative photovoltaic devices as receiver, based on organic-inorganic printable semiconductors (hybrid perovskite materials), has the potential to pave the way to new scenario applications, thanks to the inherent cheaper costs of fabrication via roll-to-roll solution-based processes, possibly on flexible substrates. In this context, we have fabricated photo-detectors with three different types of perovskite, and used with a commercial cool-white LED to realize a prototype of visible light communication data link. Using a single-stage trans-impedance amplifier for the perovskite photodetector, we have reached a remarkable frequency bandwidth close to ∼800KHz