Title :
Athermal silicon subwavelength grating waveguides
Author :
Ibrahim, Marc ; Schmid, Jens H. ; Cheben, Pavel ; Lapointe, Jean ; Janz, Siegfried ; Bock, Przemek J. ; Densmore, Adam ; Lamontagne, Boris ; Ma, Rubin ; Xu, Dan-Xia ; Ye, Winnie N.
Author_Institution :
Dept. of Electron., Carleton Univ., Ottawa, ON, Canada
Abstract :
Athermal silicon subwavelength grating waveguides are demonstrated. We report the results of numerical simulations and experiments for the waveguide thermo-optic coefficients, as well as fabrication tolerances and the thermal bandwidth.
Keywords :
diffraction gratings; elemental semiconductors; optical waveguides; silicon; thermo-optical devices; thermo-optical effects; Si; athermal silicon subwavelength grating waveguides; fabrication tolerances; numerical simulations; thermal bandwidth; waveguide thermo-optic coefficients; Gratings; Optical waveguides; Photonics; Polymers; Refractive index; Silicon; athermal; grating; photonics; silicon; subwavelength; thermo-optic; waveguide;
Conference_Titel :
Group IV Photonics (GFP), 2011 8th IEEE International Conference on
Conference_Location :
London
Print_ISBN :
978-1-4244-8338-9
DOI :
10.1109/GROUP4.2011.6053782
