• DocumentCode
    1795611
  • Title

    Strong light confinement in a metal-assisted silicon slot waveguide

  • Author

    Ishizaka, Yuhei ; Nagai, Masaharu ; Saitoh, Kunimasa

  • Author_Institution
    Grad. Sch. of Inf. Sci. & Technol., Hokkaido Univ., Sapporo, Japan
  • fYear
    2014
  • fDate
    6-10 July 2014
  • Firstpage
    103
  • Lastpage
    105
  • Abstract
    A metal-assisted silicon slot waveguide is presented. Numerical results show that the proposed structure achieves a strong light confinement in a low-index region, which leads to the improvement of the sensitivity in refractive index sensors.
  • Keywords
    elemental semiconductors; optical sensors; optical waveguides; refractive index measurement; silicon; Si; low-index region; metal-assisted silicon slot waveguide; refractive index sensors; sensitivity; strong light confinement; Metals; Optical waveguides; Optimized production technology; Refractive index; Sensitivity; Sensors; Silicon;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • Conference_Titel
    Optical Fibre Technology, 2014 OptoElectronics and Communication Conference and Australian Conference on
  • Conference_Location
    Melbourne, VIC
  • Type

    conf

  • Filename
    6888012
    • Link To Document
    https://search.isc.ac/dl/search/defaultta.aspx?DTC=49&DC=1795611