Surface-grating-coupled low-loss Ge-on-Si rib waveguides and multimode interferometers
Surface-grating-coupled low-loss Ge-on-Si rib waveguides and multimode interferometers
Germanium-on-silicon is a highly promising platform for planar photonics for the midinfrared, due to germanium’s wide transparency range. In this letter, we report Ge-on-Si waveguides with record low losses of only 0.6 dB/cm, which is achieved using a 2.9 µm thick germanium layer, thus minimizing mode interaction with dislocations at the germanium/silicon interface. Using these waveguides, multimode interferometers with insertion losses of only 0.21 ± 0.02 dB are also demonstrated.
mid-infrared, germanium, waveguides
1040-1043
Nedeljković, Miloš
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Soler Penadés, Jordi
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Mitchell, Colin J.
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Khokhar, Ali Z.
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Stanković, Stevan
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Domínguez Bucio, Thalía
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Littlejohns, Callum
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Gardes, Frederic Y.
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Mashanovich, Goran Z.
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15 May 2015
Nedeljković, Miloš
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Soler Penadés, Jordi
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Mitchell, Colin J.
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Khokhar, Ali Z.
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Stanković, Stevan
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Domínguez Bucio, Thalía
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Littlejohns, Callum
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Gardes, Frederic Y.
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Mashanovich, Goran Z.
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Nedeljković, Miloš, Soler Penadés, Jordi, Mitchell, Colin J., Khokhar, Ali Z., Stanković, Stevan, Domínguez Bucio, Thalía, Littlejohns, Callum, Gardes, Frederic Y. and Mashanovich, Goran Z.
(2015)
Surface-grating-coupled low-loss Ge-on-Si rib waveguides and multimode interferometers.
IEEE Photonics Technology Letters, 27 (10), , [7045441].
(doi:10.1109/LPT.2015.2405611).
Abstract
Germanium-on-silicon is a highly promising platform for planar photonics for the midinfrared, due to germanium’s wide transparency range. In this letter, we report Ge-on-Si waveguides with record low losses of only 0.6 dB/cm, which is achieved using a 2.9 µm thick germanium layer, thus minimizing mode interaction with dislocations at the germanium/silicon interface. Using these waveguides, multimode interferometers with insertion losses of only 0.21 ± 0.02 dB are also demonstrated.
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e-pub ahead of print date: 19 February 2015
Published date: 15 May 2015
Keywords:
mid-infrared, germanium, waveguides
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Optoelectronics Research Centre, Photonic Systems Circuits & Sensors
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URI: http://eprints.soton.ac.uk/id/eprint/385678
ISSN: 1041-1135
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