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Hot-wire chemical vapor deposition low-loss hydrogenated amorphous silicon waveguides for silicon photonic devices

Hot-wire chemical vapor deposition low-loss hydrogenated amorphous silicon waveguides for silicon photonic devices
Hot-wire chemical vapor deposition low-loss hydrogenated amorphous silicon waveguides for silicon photonic devices

We demonstrate low-loss hydrogenated amorphous silicon (a-Si:H) waveguides by hot-wire chemical vapor deposition (HWCVD). The effect of hydrogenation in a-Si at different deposition temperatures has been investigated and analyzed by Raman spectroscopy. We obtained an optical quality a-Si:H waveguide deposited at 230°C that has a strong Raman peak shift at 480 cm−1, peak width (full width at half-maximum) of 68.9 cm−1, and bond angle deviation of 8.98°. Optical transmission measurement shows a low propagation loss of 0.8 dB/cm at the 1550 nm wavelength, which is the first, to our knowledge, report for a HWCVD a-Si:H waveguide.

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Oo, Swe, Tarazona, Antulio, Khokhar, Ali, Petra, Rafidah, Franz, Yohann, Mashanovich, Goran, Reed, Graham, Peacock, Anna and Chong, Harold (2019) Hot-wire chemical vapor deposition low-loss hydrogenated amorphous silicon waveguides for silicon photonic devices. Photonics Research, 7 (2), 193-200, [331501]. (doi:10.1364/PRJ.7.000193).

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Abstract

We demonstrate low-loss hydrogenated amorphous silicon (a-Si:H) waveguides by hot-wire chemical vapor deposition (HWCVD). The effect of hydrogenation in a-Si at different deposition temperatures has been investigated and analyzed by Raman spectroscopy. We obtained an optical quality a-Si:H waveguide deposited at 230°C that has a strong Raman peak shift at 480 cm−1, peak width (full width at half-maximum) of 68.9 cm−1, and bond angle deviation of 8.98°. Optical transmission measurement shows a low propagation loss of 0.8 dB/cm at the 1550 nm wavelength, which is the first, to our knowledge, report for a HWCVD a-Si:H waveguide.

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Accepted/In Press date: 18 December 2018
e-pub ahead of print date: 30 January 2019
Published date: 1 February 2019

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Local EPrints ID: 427414
URI: http://eprints.soton.ac.uk/id/eprint/427414
PURE UUID: fb244e16-93d8-4397-ba6e-282c45039c21
ORCID for Goran Mashanovich: ORCID iD orcid.org/0000-0003-2954-5138
ORCID for Anna Peacock: ORCID iD orcid.org/0000-0002-1940-7172
ORCID for Harold Chong: ORCID iD orcid.org/0000-0002-7110-5761

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Date deposited: 15 Jan 2019 17:30
Last modified: 29 Oct 2024 02:45

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Author: Swe Oo
Author: Antulio Tarazona
Author: Ali Khokhar
Author: Rafidah Petra
Author: Yohann Franz
Author: Goran Mashanovich ORCID iD
Author: Graham Reed
Author: Anna Peacock ORCID iD
Author: Harold Chong ORCID iD

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