Low propagation loss silicon-on-sapphire waveguides for the mid-infrared

Optics Express

Volumn 19, Issue 16, 2011, Pages 15212-15220

  Li, Fangxin ^a   Jackson, Stuart D ^a   Grillet, Christian ^a   Magi, Eric ^a   Hudson, Darren ^a   Madden, Steven J ^b   Moghe, Yashodhan ^c   O'Brien, Christopher ^c,d   Read, Andrew ^c   Duvall, Steven G ^c   Atanackovic, Peter ^c   Eggleton, Benjamin J ^a   Moss, David J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY   (Australia)

^b AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^c Silanna Semiconductor   (Australia)

^d Peregrin Semiconductor   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

NANOWIRES;

LOW LOSS; LOW PROPAGATION LOSS; MID-INFRARED OPTICS; MIDINFRARED; PROPAGATION LOSS; SILICON-ON-SAPPHIRE;

SAPPHIRE;

ALUMINUM OXIDE; NANOWIRE; SILICON;

ARTICLE; CHEMISTRY; CRYSTALLIZATION; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; INFRARED SPECTROPHOTOMETRY; METHODOLOGY; OPTICS; PHOTON; REFRACTOMETRY; SCANNING ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; SPECTROPHOTOMETRY;

ALUMINUM OXIDE; CRYSTALLIZATION; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; MICROSCOPY, ELECTRON, SCANNING; NANOWIRES; OPTICS AND PHOTONICS; PHOTONS; REFRACTOMETRY; SILICON; SPECTROPHOTOMETRY; SPECTROPHOTOMETRY, INFRARED;

EID: 79961094132     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.19.015212     Document Type: Article

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