Amorphous silicon waveguides and interferometers for low-cost silicon optoelectronics

Giuseppe Cocorullo; Francesco G. Della Corte; Rosario De Rosa; Ivo Rendina; Alfredo Rubino; Ezio Terzini

doi:10.1117/12.298212

12 January 1998 Amorphous silicon waveguides and interferometers for low-cost silicon optoelectronics

Giuseppe Cocorullo, Francesco G. Della Corte, Rosario De Rosa, Ivo Rendina, Alfredo Rubino, Ezio Terzini

Proceedings Volume 3278, Integrated Optic Devices II; (1998) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.298212
Event: Optoelectronics and High-Power Lasers and Applications, 1998, San Jose, CA, United States

Abstract

The present work reports on our recent achievements in the exploitation of a simple technology for the fabrication of hydrogenated amorphous silicon (a-Si:H) based low-loss rib waveguides. In particular, waveguides with various widths have been fabricated out of an a-SiC:H/a-Si:H stack deposited by plasma enhanced chemical vapor deposition at the relatively low temperature of 220 degrees C. The ribs were defined by an anisotropic, CH₄-based, reactive ion etching process. The devices have been subsequently characterized by cut-back technique. Even though a dependence of attenuation parameter on the waveguide width was observed, propagation losses as low as 0.7 dB/cm could be measured at λ=1.3 μm, in good agreement with he theoretical estimations based on the intrinsic absorption of the material. Starting from the same structure, a Fabry- Perot thermo optical modulator has been also fabricated and tested at the communication wavelength of 1.3 μm.

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Giuseppe Cocorullo, Francesco G. Della Corte, Rosario De Rosa, Ivo Rendina, Alfredo Rubino, and Ezio Terzini "Amorphous silicon waveguides and interferometers for low-cost silicon optoelectronics", Proc. SPIE 3278, Integrated Optic Devices II, (12 January 1998); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.298212

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