Title :
Silicon waveguides and ring resonators at 5.5 µm
Author :
Liu, Yang ; Spott, Alexander ; Baehr-Jones, Tom ; Ilic, Rob ; Hochberg, Michael
Author_Institution :
Dept. of Electr. Eng., Univ. of Washington, Seattle, WA, USA
Abstract :
We fabricate and characterize silicon waveguides and ring resonators around 5.5 μm on the Silicon-on-Sapphire (SOS) platform. The waveguide loss is 4.1 ± 0.7 dB/cm, and a Q value of 1.4k is achieved.
Keywords :
Q-factor; elemental semiconductors; integrated optics; optical fabrication; optical losses; optical resonators; optical waveguides; silicon; Al2O3; Q value; Si; ring resonators; silicon waveguides; silicon-on-sapphire platform; waveguide loss; wavelength 5.5 mum; Absorption; Laser noise; Optical ring resonators; Optical waveguides; Quantum cascade lasers; Silicon; Waveguide lasers;
Conference_Titel :
Group IV Photonics (GFP), 2010 7th IEEE International Conference on
Conference_Location :
Beijing
Print_ISBN :
978-1-4244-6344-2
DOI :
10.1109/GROUP4.2010.5643321
