Low propagation loss silicon-on-sapphire waveguides for the mid-infrared
journal contribution
posted on 2024-11-01, 15:54authored byFangxin Li, Stuart Jackson, Christian Grillet, Eric Magi, Darren Hudson, Steven Madden, Yashodhan Moghe, Christopher O'Brien, Andrew Read, Steven Duvall, Peter Atanackovic, Ben Eggleton, David Moss
We report low loss silicon-on-sapphire nanowires for applications to mid infrared optics. We achieve propagation losses of < 1dB/cm at λ=1550nm and < 2dB/cm at λ = 5.08 μm