Optical quality ZnSe films and low loss waveguides on Si substrates for mid-infrared applications

Mittal, Vinita, Sessions, Neil, Wilkinson, James and Murugan, Ganapathy Senthil (2017) Optical quality ZnSe films and low loss waveguides on Si substrates for mid-infrared applications. Optical Materials Express, 7 (3), 712-725. (doi:10.1364/OME.7.000712).

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Abstract

Zinc Selenide (ZnSe) is a promising mid-infrared waveguide material with high refractive index and wide transparency. Optical quality ZnSe thin films were deposited on silicon substrates by RF sputtering and thermal evaporation, and characterized and compared for material and optical properties. Evaporated films were found to be denser and smoother than sputtered films. Rib waveguides were fabricated from these films and evaporated films exhibited losses as low as 0.6 dB/cm at wavelengths between 2.5 µm and 3.7 µm. The films were also used as isolation/lower cladding layers on Si with GeTe₄ as the waveguide core and propagation losses were determined in this wavelength range.

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