• DocumentCode
    3677286
  • Title

    Surface transfer doping in silicon waveguides: A cause of optical loss

  • Author

    Luta Alloatti;Christian Koos;Juerg Leuthold

  • Author_Institution
    Massachusetts Institute of Technology (KIT). 77 Massachusetts Ave. Cambridge. MA USA 02139
  • fYear
    2015
  • Firstpage
    33
  • Lastpage
    34
  • Abstract
    We show that undoped silicon waveguides may suffer of up to 1.8dB/cm free-carrier absorption caused by improper surface passivation, this result opens new perspectives for low-loss silicon photonics and high-speed gateless devices.
  • Keywords
    "Optical waveguides","Optical device fabrication","Silicon","Optical losses","Logic gates","Nonlinear optics","Optical surface waves"
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • Conference_Titel
    Group IV Photonics (GFP), 2015 IEEE 12th International Conference on
  • Type

    conf

  • DOI
    10.1109/Group4.2015.7305940
  • Filename
    7305940
    • Link To Document
    https://search.isc.ac/dl/search/defaultta.aspx?DTC=49&DC=3677286