Hui-Wen Chen

ECE Department
Engr. Science Bldg., Rm. 2221A
UCSB, Santa Barbara, CA 93106
Tel: (805) 893-4235
Fax: (805) 893-7990
Email: hwchen [at] ece [dot] ucsb [dot] edu

Hui-Wen Chen received her B.S. in Electrical Engineering in 2003 and M.S. in Communication Engineering in 2005 from National Tsing Hua University (NTHU) and Naitonal Chiao Tung University (NCTU) respectively. She is currently pursuing her Ph.D at the University of California, Santa Barbara. Her interest includes design, fabrication, and characterization of high speed MZI modulators and switches on hybrid silicon evanescent platform.

Journal Publications

"Dynamic Characterization of Distortion in Hybrid Silicon Evanescent Phase Modulators," N. Nunoya, A. Ramaswamy, H.-W. Chen, M. N. Sysak and J. E. Bowers, IEEE Photonics Technology Letters, Vol. 21 no. 13, pp. 833-35, 2009

"Hybrid silicon modulators," H.-W. Chen, Y.-H. Kuo, J. E. Bowers, Chinese Optics Letters, Vol. 7, No. 4, invited, 2009

"Hybrid silicon evanescent approach to optical interconnects," D. Liang, A. W. Fang, H.-W. Chen, M. N. Sysak, B. R. Koch, E. Lively, O. Raday, Y.-H. Kuo, R. Jones, J. E. Bowers, Applied Physics A: Materials Science & Processing, invited, 2009

"High speed hybrid silicon evanescent Mach-Zehnder modulator and switch," H.-W. Chen, Y.-H. Kuo, and J. E. Bowers, Optics Express, 16(25), 20571-20576, 2008

"Monolithic germanium/silicon avalanche photodiodes with 340 GHz gain–bandwidth product," Y. Kang, H.-D. Liu, M. Morse, M. J. Paniccia, M.Zadka, S. Litski, G. Sarid, A. Pauchard, Y.-H. Kuo, H.-W. Chen, W. Sfar Zaoui, J. E. Bowers, A. Beling, D. C. McIntosh, X. Zheng and J. C. Campbell, Nature Photonics, DOI:10.1038, 2008

"A Hybrid Silicon-AlGaInAs Phase Modulator," H.-W. Chen, Y.-H. Kuo, and J. E. Bowers, Photonics Technology Letter, 20(23), 1920-1922, 2008

"High speed hybrid silicon evanescent electroabsorption modulator," Y.-H. Kuo, H.-W. Chen, J.E. Bowers, Optics Express, 16(13), 9936-9941, 2008

"Photonic Integration on Hybrid Silicon Evanescent Device Platform," H. Park, A. W. Fang, D. Liang, Y.-H. Kuo, H.-H. Chang, B. R. Koch, H.-W. Chen, M. N. Sysak, R. Jones, and J. E. Bowers, Advances in Optical Technologies, Article ID 682978,, 2008

Conference Publications

"Hybrid Silicon Tunable Filter Based on a Mach- Zehnder Interferometer and Ring Resonantor," H.-W. Chen, A. W. Fang, J. Bovington, J. D. Peters, J. E. Bowers, Microwave Photonics 09, Valencia, Spain, We 2.3, 2009

"A High Speed Mach-Zehnder Silicon Evanescent Modulator Using Capacitively Loaded Traveling Wave Electrode," H.-W. Chen, Y.-H. Kuo, J. E. Bowers, Group IV Photonics, San Francisco, FC4, 2009

"High Speed Silicon Modulators," H.-W. Chen, Y.-H. Kuo, J. E. Bowers, OECC 2009 Hong Kong, ThG1, invited, 2009

"Dynamic Distortion Characteristics of Silicon Evanescent Detectors and Phase Modulators," N. Nunoya, A. Ramaswamy, H.-W. Chen, H. Park, J. E. Bowers, Optical Fiber Communication (OFC), paper no. OMR8, San Diego, CA, 2009

"Origin of the Gain-Bandwidth-Product Enhancement in Separate-Absorption-Charge-Multiplication Ge/Si Avalanche Photodiodes," W. Sfar Zaoui, H.-W. Chen, J. E. Bowers,Y. Kang, M. Morse, M. J. Paniccia, A. Pauchard, J. Campbell, OFC 2009, San Diego, 2009

"Hybrid Silicon Modulators," H.-W. Chen, Y.-H. Kuo, J. E. Bowers, Photonics West 2009, Proc. of SPIE Vol. 7220, invited, 2009

"Hybrid Silicon Evanescent Modulators," H.-W. Chen, Y.-H. Kuo, and J. E. Bowers, LEOS Annual, TuDD1(invited), Newport Beach, CA, 2008

"Wafer Bonded Silicon Photonics," D. Liang, A. W. Fang, H.-W. Chen, J. E. Bowers, IEEE Avionics, Fiber- Optics and Photonics Technology, Paper WA1 (invited), San Diego, CA, USA, 2008

"A 10Gb/s Mach-Zehnder Silicon Evanescent Modulator," H.-W. Chen, Y.-H. Kuo, and J. E. Bowers, IEEE GFP, WA3, Sorrento, Italy, 2008

"Hybrid silicon photonic integrated circuits for optical networking," E. F. Burmeister, H.-W. Chen, J. P. Mack, Y.-H.Kuo, J. E. Bowers, Photonics in Switching 2008, Japan, 2008

"Hybrid silicon evanescent phase modulator based on carrier depletion in offset multiple-quantum-well," H.-W. Chen, Y.-H. Kuo, J. E. Bowers, CLEO, San Jose, 2008

"A hybrid silicon evanescent electroabsorption modulator," Y.-H. Kuo, H.-W. Chen, J. E. Bowers, OFC 2008, San Diego, CA, 2008