Fabrication of arbitrarily narrow vertical dielectric slots in silicon waveguides
Fabrication of arbitrarily narrow vertical dielectric slots in silicon waveguides
Slot waveguides are used for many photonic applications. However, existing fabrication techniques impose restrictions on the width of the slot region. Here we propose and experimentally demonstrate a fabrication process to realize an arbitrarily narrow vertical dielectric slot in a silicon waveguide. Using this fabrication method we have realized silicon slot waveguides with a 10 nm oxide slot region. The propagation loss of the fabricated slot waveguide was 1.36±0.3 dB/mm.
Debnath, Kapil
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Khokhar, Ali Z.
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Reed, Graham T.
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Saito, Shinichi
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13 July 2017
Debnath, Kapil
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Khokhar, Ali Z.
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Reed, Graham T.
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Saito, Shinichi
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Debnath, Kapil, Khokhar, Ali Z., Reed, Graham T. and Saito, Shinichi
(2017)
Fabrication of arbitrarily narrow vertical dielectric slots in silicon waveguides.
IEEE Photonics Technology Letters, 29.
(doi:10.1109/LPT.2017.2722003).
Abstract
Slot waveguides are used for many photonic applications. However, existing fabrication techniques impose restrictions on the width of the slot region. Here we propose and experimentally demonstrate a fabrication process to realize an arbitrarily narrow vertical dielectric slot in a silicon waveguide. Using this fabrication method we have realized silicon slot waveguides with a 10 nm oxide slot region. The propagation loss of the fabricated slot waveguide was 1.36±0.3 dB/mm.
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Accepted/In Press date: 27 June 2017
e-pub ahead of print date: 30 June 2017
Published date: 13 July 2017
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Optoelectronics Research Centre, Photonic Systems Circuits & Sensors, Nanoelectronics and Nanotechnology
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Local EPrints ID: 411994
URI: http://eprints.soton.ac.uk/id/eprint/411994
ISSN: 1041-1135
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Kapil Debnath
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Ali Z. Khokhar
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Shinichi Saito
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