• DocumentCode
    1993310
  • Title

    Low propagation loss silicon-on-sapphire nanowires for the mid-IR

  • Author

    Li, F. ; Jackson, S. ; Magi, E. ; Grillet, C. ; Madden, S.J. ; Moghe, Y. ; Read, A. ; Brien, C.O. ; Duvall, S.G. ; Atanackovic, P. ; Eggleton, B.J. ; Moss, D.J.

  • Author_Institution
    Sch. of Phys., Univ. of Sydney, Sydney, NSW, Australia
  • fYear
    2011
  • fDate
    Aug. 28 2011-Sept. 1 2011
  • Firstpage
    971
  • Lastpage
    973
  • Abstract
    We report low loss silicon-on-sapphire nanowires for applications to mid infrared optics. We achieve propagation losses of <; 1dB/cm at λ=1550nm and <; 2dB/cm at λ = 2.08 μm and λ = 5.18 μm, the latter representing a factor of 2 reduction in loss over the best previous results.
  • Keywords
    nanophotonics; nanowires; sapphire; silicon-on-insulator; Al2O3; low propagation loss; mid infrared optics; silicon-on-sapphire nanowires; wavelength 1550 nm; wavelength 2.08 mum; wavelength 5.18 mum; Loss measurement; Nanowires; Optical waveguides; Photonics; Propagation losses; Quantum cascade lasers; Silicon;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • Conference_Titel
    Quantum Electronics Conference & Lasers and Electro-Optics (CLEO/IQEC/PACIFIC RIM), 2011
  • Conference_Location
    Sydney, NSW
  • Print_ISBN
    978-1-4577-1939-4
  • Type

    conf

  • DOI
    10.1109/IQEC-CLEO.2011.6194094
  • Filename
    6194094