• DocumentCode
    243099
  • Title

    Low-Loss Aluminium Nitride Thin Film for Mid-Infrared Waveguiding

  • Author

    Pao Tai Lin ; Hojoong Jung ; Kimerling, Lionel C. ; Agarwal, Abhishek ; Tang, Hong X.

  • Author_Institution
    Dept. of Mater. Sci., Massachusetts Inst. of Technol., Cambridge, MA, USA
  • fYear
    2014
  • fDate
    14-16 July 2014
  • Firstpage
    67
  • Lastpage
    68
  • Abstract
    Mid-infrared micro photonic devices including straight/bent waveguides and Y-junction beam splitters are developed on CMOS-compatible AlN-on-silicon platform. A low optical loss of 0.83 dB/cm and efficient 50:50 beam splitting ratio is achieved at λ=2.5 μm.
  • Keywords
    CMOS integrated circuits; III-V semiconductors; aluminium compounds; integrated optics; micro-optics; optical beam splitters; optical films; optical losses; optical waveguides; semiconductor thin films; silicon; wide band gap semiconductors; AlN-Si; CMOS-compatible AlN-on-silicon platform; Y-junction beam splitters; beam splitting ratio; bent waveguides; low-loss aluminium nitride thin film; microphotonic devices; midinfrared waveguiding; optical loss; straight waveguides; wavelength 2.5 mum;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • Conference_Titel
    Photonics Society Summer Topical Meeting Series, 2014 IEEE
  • Conference_Location
    Montreal, QC
  • Print_ISBN
    978-1-4799-2766-1
  • Type

    conf

  • DOI
    10.1109/SUM.2014.29
  • Filename
    6902990