Design and fabrication of low-loss hydrogenated amorphous silicon overlay DBR for glass waveguide devices

IEEE Journal on Selected Topics in Quantum Electronics

Volumn 8, Issue 6, 2002, Pages 1307-1315

  Kim, Jaeyoun ^a   Winick, Kim A ^a   Florea, Catalin ^b   McCoy, Michael ^c  

^a University of Michigan   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

^c Northstar Photonics Inc   (United States)

Author keywords

Amorphous semiconductors; Distributed Bragg reflector (DBR) lasers; Erbium; Optical waveguides; Ytterbium

Indexed keywords

AMORPHOUS SILICON; DEPOSITION; DESIGN; DOPING (ADDITIVES); HYDROGENATION; ITERATIVE METHODS; LASERS; NUMERICAL ANALYSIS; OPTICAL WAVEGUIDES; REFLECTION; SUBSTRATES;

AMORPHOUS SEMICONDUCTORS; DISTRIBUTED BRAGG REFLECTOR LASER; GLASS WAVEGUIDE;

MIRRORS;

EID: 0036881882     PISSN: 1077260X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/JSTQE.2002.806720     Document Type: Article

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