High-contrast, all-silicon waveguiding platform for multi-octave integrated photonics
- Resource Type
- Conference
- Authors
- Chiles, Jeff; Khan, Saeed; Ma, Jichi; Fathpour, Sasan
- Source
- OFC 2014 Optical Fiber Communications Conference and Exhibition (OFC), 2014. :1-3 Mar, 2014
- Subject
- Communication, Networking and Broadcast Technologies
Photonics and Electrooptics
Optical waveguides
Photonics
Silicon
Optical device fabrication
Substrates
Integrated optics
- Language
A novel all-silicon optical platform (ASOP) is demonstrated, enabling low-loss propagation in wavelengths of 1.2–8.5 µm. The robust platform offers enhanced CMOS compatibility for electronic-photonic integration in the broadest possible transparency range of silicon.