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Surface-grating-coupled low-loss Ge-on-Si rib waveguides and multimode interferometers

Surface-grating-coupled low-loss Ge-on-Si rib waveguides and multimode interferometers
Surface-grating-coupled low-loss Ge-on-Si rib waveguides and multimode interferometers
Germanium-on-silicon is a highly promising platform for planar photonics for the midinfrared, due to germanium’s wide transparency range. In this letter, we report Ge-on-Si waveguides with record low losses of only 0.6 dB/cm, which is achieved using a 2.9 µm thick germanium layer, thus minimizing mode interaction with dislocations at the germanium/silicon interface. Using these waveguides, multimode interferometers with insertion losses of only 0.21 ± 0.02 dB are also demonstrated.
mid-infrared, germanium, waveguides
1041-1135
1040-1043
Nedeljković, Miloš
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Soler Penadés, Jordi
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Mitchell, Colin J.
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Khokhar, Ali Z.
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Stanković, Stevan
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Domínguez Bucio, Thalía
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Littlejohns, Callum
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Gardes, Frederic Y.
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Mashanovich, Goran Z.
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Nedeljković, Miloš
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Soler Penadés, Jordi
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Mitchell, Colin J.
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Khokhar, Ali Z.
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Stanković, Stevan
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Littlejohns, Callum
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Gardes, Frederic Y.
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Mashanovich, Goran Z.
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Nedeljković, Miloš, Soler Penadés, Jordi, Mitchell, Colin J., Khokhar, Ali Z., Stanković, Stevan, Domínguez Bucio, Thalía, Littlejohns, Callum, Gardes, Frederic Y. and Mashanovich, Goran Z. (2015) Surface-grating-coupled low-loss Ge-on-Si rib waveguides and multimode interferometers. IEEE Photonics Technology Letters, 27 (10), 1040-1043, [7045441]. (doi:10.1109/LPT.2015.2405611).

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Abstract

Germanium-on-silicon is a highly promising platform for planar photonics for the midinfrared, due to germanium’s wide transparency range. In this letter, we report Ge-on-Si waveguides with record low losses of only 0.6 dB/cm, which is achieved using a 2.9 µm thick germanium layer, thus minimizing mode interaction with dislocations at the germanium/silicon interface. Using these waveguides, multimode interferometers with insertion losses of only 0.21 ± 0.02 dB are also demonstrated.

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e-pub ahead of print date: 19 February 2015
Published date: 15 May 2015
Keywords: mid-infrared, germanium, waveguides
Organisations: Optoelectronics Research Centre, Photonic Systems Circuits & Sensors

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Local EPrints ID: 385678
URI: http://eprints.soton.ac.uk/id/eprint/385678
ISSN: 1041-1135
PURE UUID: 24d09c0d-bd5d-4922-aec7-6960d9026998
ORCID for Miloš Nedeljković: ORCID iD orcid.org/0000-0002-9170-7911
ORCID for Jordi Soler Penadés: ORCID iD orcid.org/0000-0002-1706-8533
ORCID for Colin J. Mitchell: ORCID iD orcid.org/0000-0001-9773-8842
ORCID for Stevan Stanković: ORCID iD orcid.org/0000-0001-6154-3138
ORCID for Thalía Domínguez Bucio: ORCID iD orcid.org/0000-0002-3664-1403
ORCID for Frederic Y. Gardes: ORCID iD orcid.org/0000-0003-1400-3272

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Last modified: 15 Mar 2024 04:02

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Author: Jordi Soler Penadés ORCID iD
Author: Ali Z. Khokhar
Author: Stevan Stanković ORCID iD

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