Title : 
Experimental demonstration of mid-infrared holey and slotted photonic crystal waveguides in silicon on sapphire
         
        
            Author : 
Yi Zou ; Wray, Parker ; Chakravarty, Swapnajit ; Chen, Ray T.
         
        
            Author_Institution : 
Electr. & Comput. Eng. Dept., Univ. of Texas at Austin, Austin, TX, USA
         
        
        
        
        
        
            Abstract : 
We provide the first experimental demonstration of propagation characteristics of holey and slotted two dimensional photonic crystal waveguides in silicon-on-sapphire at mid-infrared wavelength of 3.43 μm.
         
        
            Keywords : 
integrated optics; optical waveguides; photonic crystals; silicon-on-insulator; holey two dimensional photonic crystal waveguides; midinfrared holey; propagation characteristics; silicon on sapphire; silicon-on-sapphire; slotted two dimensional photonic crystal waveguides; wavelength 3.43 mum; Absorption; Integrated optics; Optical sensors; Optical surface waves; Optical waveguides; Photonic crystals; Propagation losses;
         
        
        
        
            Conference_Titel : 
Lasers and Electro-Optics (CLEO), 2015 Conference on
         
        
            Conference_Location : 
San Jose, CA