Optical bandgap engineering in nonlinear silicon nitride waveguides

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العنوان: Optical bandgap engineering in nonlinear silicon nitride waveguides
المؤلفون: Krückel, Clemens J., Fülöp, Attila, Ye, Zhichao, Andrekson, Peter A., Torres-Company, Victor
سنة النشر: 2017
المجموعة: Condensed Matter
Physics (Other)
مصطلحات موضوعية: Physics - Optics, Condensed Matter - Materials Science
الوصف: Silicon nitride is awell-established material for photonic devices and integrated circuits. It displays a broad transparency window spanning from the visible to the mid-IR and waveguides can be manufactured with low losses. An absence of nonlinear multi-photon absorption in the erbium lightwave communications band has enabled various nonlinear optic applications in the past decade. Silicon nitride is a dielectric material whose optical and mechanical properties strongly depend on the deposition conditions. In particular, the optical bandgap can be modified with the gas flow ratio during low-pressure chemical vapor deposition (LPCVD). Here we show that this parameter can be controlled in a highly reproducible manner, providing an approach to synthesize the nonlinear Kerr coefficient of the material. This holistic empirical study provides relevant guidelines to optimize the properties of LPCVD silicon nitride waveguides for nonlinear optics applications that rely on the Kerr effect.
نوع الوثيقة: Working Paper
DOI: 10.1364/OE.25.015370
URL الوصول: http://arxiv.org/abs/1703.05586
رقم الأكسشن: edsarx.1703.05586
قاعدة البيانات: arXiv