Low loss silicon waveguides for the mid-infrared

Optics Express

Volumn 19, Issue 8, 2011, Pages 7112-7119

  Mashanovich, Goran Z ^a   Miloševic, Milan M ^a   Nedeljkovic, Milos ^a   Owens, Nathan ^a   Xiong, Boqian ^b   Teo, Ee Jin ^b   Hu, Youfang ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SURREY   (United Kingdom)

^b INSTITUTE OF MATERIALS RESEARCH AND ENGINEERING   (Singapore)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

INFRARED DEVICES; PHOTONIC DEVICES; SILICA; WAVEGUIDES;

ABSORPTION LOSS; LOW LOSS; MIDINFRARED; NEAR INFRARED; PROPAGATION LOSS; PROPAGATION LOSS MEASUREMENTS; SILICON DIOXIDE; SILICON WAVEGUIDE; SILICON-ON-INSULATORS;

POROUS SILICON;

EID: 79953864245     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.19.007112     Document Type: Article

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