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Nanometallic antenna assisted amorphous silicon waveguide integrated bolometer for mid-infrared

Nanometallic antenna assisted amorphous silicon waveguide integrated bolometer for mid-infrared
Nanometallic antenna assisted amorphous silicon waveguide integrated bolometer for mid-infrared

Bolometers are thermal detectors widely applied in the mid-infrared (MIR) wavelength range. In an integrated sensing system on chip, a broadband scalable bolometer absorbing the light over the whole MIR wavelength range could play an important role. In this work, we have developed a waveguide-based bolometer operating in the wavelength range of 3.72–3.88 µm on the amorphous silicon (a-Si) platform. Significant improvements in the bolometer design result in a 20× improved responsivity compared to earlier work on silicon-on-insulator (SOI). The bolometer offers 24.62% change in resistance per milliwatt of input power at 3.8 µm wavelength. The thermal conductance of the bolometer is 3.86 × 10 −5 W/K, and an improvement as large as 3 orders magnitude may be possible in the future through redesign of the device geometry.

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Wu, Yangbo, Qu, Zhibo, Osman, Ahmed, Wei, Chen, Cao, Wei, Tarazona, Antulio, Oo, Swe Zin, Chong, Harold, Muskens, Otto, Mashanovich, Goran and Nedeljković, Miloš (2021) Nanometallic antenna assisted amorphous silicon waveguide integrated bolometer for mid-infrared. Optics Letters, 46 (3), 677-680, [412529]. (doi:10.1364/OL.412529).

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Abstract

Bolometers are thermal detectors widely applied in the mid-infrared (MIR) wavelength range. In an integrated sensing system on chip, a broadband scalable bolometer absorbing the light over the whole MIR wavelength range could play an important role. In this work, we have developed a waveguide-based bolometer operating in the wavelength range of 3.72–3.88 µm on the amorphous silicon (a-Si) platform. Significant improvements in the bolometer design result in a 20× improved responsivity compared to earlier work on silicon-on-insulator (SOI). The bolometer offers 24.62% change in resistance per milliwatt of input power at 3.8 µm wavelength. The thermal conductance of the bolometer is 3.86 × 10 −5 W/K, and an improvement as large as 3 orders magnitude may be possible in the future through redesign of the device geometry.

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Accepted/In Press date: 21 December 2020
Published date: 1 February 2021
Additional Information: Funding Information: Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EP/L01162X/1, EP/L021129/1, EP/N00762X/1); Royal Academy of Engineering (RF201617/16/33). Publisher Copyright: © 2021 Optical Society of America Copyright: Copyright 2021 Elsevier B.V., All rights reserved.

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Local EPrints ID: 446169
URI: http://eprints.soton.ac.uk/id/eprint/446169
ISSN: 0146-9592
PURE UUID: e528f600-a3a8-4732-9a0f-a9c12fe56616
ORCID for Ahmed Osman: ORCID iD orcid.org/0000-0001-6575-3861
ORCID for Wei Cao: ORCID iD orcid.org/0000-0003-1431-7060
ORCID for Harold Chong: ORCID iD orcid.org/0000-0002-7110-5761
ORCID for Otto Muskens: ORCID iD orcid.org/0000-0003-0693-5504
ORCID for Miloš Nedeljković: ORCID iD orcid.org/0000-0002-9170-7911

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Date deposited: 26 Jan 2021 17:30
Last modified: 28 Mar 2024 05:02

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Author: Yangbo Wu
Author: Zhibo Qu
Author: Ahmed Osman ORCID iD
Author: Chen Wei
Author: Wei Cao ORCID iD
Author: Antulio Tarazona
Author: Swe Zin Oo
Author: Harold Chong ORCID iD
Author: Otto Muskens ORCID iD

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