Amorphous Silicon in Nanophotonic Technology

• Silicon-on-insulator nanowire waveguides appear to be the technology for next generation of super compact integrated devices. Due to a very high refractive index contrast and strong light confinement in the core, the waveguide bend radius can be reduced to a few micrometers and the size reduction of the functional integrated circuits can reach several orders of magnitude in comparison to standard integrated optics based on silica-on-silicon technology. Amorphous silicon is an interesting material allowing for more flexibility in nanowire structures. An array waveguide grating multi/demultiplexer that usually occupies several square centimetres in silica-on-silicon technology can be reduced to the size of 320 x 270 μm2.

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nanowire waveguides

Silicon-on-insulator

integrated photonics

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