Mid-infrared waveguides for broadband single-moded guidance
Mid-infrared waveguides for broadband single-moded guidance
We present the development of SOI waveguides with low-loss (~1.5 dB/cm) single-moded guidance over an octave of frequency. Broadband single-moded guidance is needed for on-chip mid-infrared spectroscopy and this cannot be provided by conventional waveguide geometries in standard material platforms. The reported waveguides require a simple fabrication process flow and will be widely applicable to different mid-infrared wavelength bands for a variety of sensing applications. We further present a low-loss bend design (0.179 ± 0.031 dB/90°) that overcomes the inherently large bending loss of the waveguides, which is a limiting factor in the utility of the waveguides. We consider different prospective designs for the use of these waveguides in a circuit for a sensing device.
Silicon photonics, absorption spectroscopy, broadband, mid-infrared, sensing, waveguide
Stirling, Callum
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Logan, April
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Cao, Wei
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Reynolds, Jamie
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Qu, Zhibo
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Bradley, Thomas D.
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Mastronardi, Lorenzo
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Gardes, Frederic Y.
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Mashanovich, Goran Z.
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Nedeljković, Milos
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31 May 2023
Stirling, Callum
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Logan, April
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Cao, Wei
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Reynolds, Jamie
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Qu, Zhibo
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Bradley, Thomas D.
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Mastronardi, Lorenzo
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Gardes, Frederic Y.
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Mashanovich, Goran Z.
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Nedeljković, Milos
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Stirling, Callum, Logan, April, Cao, Wei, Reynolds, Jamie, Qu, Zhibo, Bradley, Thomas D., Mastronardi, Lorenzo, Gardes, Frederic Y., Mashanovich, Goran Z. and Nedeljković, Milos
(2023)
Mid-infrared waveguides for broadband single-moded guidance.
Cheben, Pavel, Ctyroky, Jiri and Molina-Fernandez, Inigo
(eds.)
In Proceedings of SPIE: Integrated Optics: Design, Devices, Systems and Applications VII.
vol. 12575,
SPIE.
4 pp
.
(doi:10.1117/12.2665590).
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Abstract
We present the development of SOI waveguides with low-loss (~1.5 dB/cm) single-moded guidance over an octave of frequency. Broadband single-moded guidance is needed for on-chip mid-infrared spectroscopy and this cannot be provided by conventional waveguide geometries in standard material platforms. The reported waveguides require a simple fabrication process flow and will be widely applicable to different mid-infrared wavelength bands for a variety of sensing applications. We further present a low-loss bend design (0.179 ± 0.031 dB/90°) that overcomes the inherently large bending loss of the waveguides, which is a limiting factor in the utility of the waveguides. We consider different prospective designs for the use of these waveguides in a circuit for a sensing device.
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Published date: 31 May 2023
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SPIE Optics + Optoelectronics 2023, , Prague, Czech Republic, 2023-04-24 - 2023-04-27
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Silicon photonics, absorption spectroscopy, broadband, mid-infrared, sensing, waveguide
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URI: http://eprints.soton.ac.uk/id/eprint/485719
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