High quality waveguides for the mid-infrared wavelength range in a silicon-on-sapphire platform
Applied Physics
2017-05-30 v1 Optics
Abstract
We report record low loss silicon-on-sapphire nanowires for applications to mid infrared optics. We achieve propagation losses as low as 0.8dB/cm at 1550nm, 1.1 to 1.4dB/cm at 2080nm and < 2dB/cm at = 5.18 microns.
Cite
@article{arxiv.1705.10038,
title = {High quality waveguides for the mid-infrared wavelength range in a silicon-on-sapphire platform},
author = {Fangxin Li and Stuart D. Jackson and Christian Grillet and Eric Magi and Darren Hudson and Steven J. Madden and Yashodhan Moghe and Christopher OBrien and Andrew Read and Steven G. Duvall and Peter Atanackovic and Benjamin J. Eggleton and David J. Moss},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1705.10038},
year = {2017}
}
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9 pages, 6 figures, 18 references