Amorphous Si waveguides with high-quality stacked gratings for multi-layer Si optical circuits

H Tokushige, T Endo, K Saiki, K Hiidome… - Photonics and …, 2014 - Elsevier
To realize a stacked multi-layer silicon-based photonic device, a waveguide with a stacked
grating was fabricated by using amorphous Si (a-Si) material, which is suitable for …

Fabrication of amorphous silicon films for arrayed waveguide grating application

WJ Liu, S Chen, HY Cheng, JD Lin, SL Fu - Surface and Coatings …, 2007 - Elsevier
Amorphous silicon (a-Si) optical films were deposited on a silicon substrate by ICP-PECVD
at the temperature of 300° C, using argon (Ar) and silane (SiH4) as gas precursors, with the …

Low-polarization-dependent silica waveguide monolithically integrated on SOI photonic platform

H Nishi, T Tsuchizawa, H Shinojima… - Journal of lightwave …, 2013 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
We developed a low-polarization-dependent silica-based waveguide, which can be
monolithically integrated with a silicon (Si) waveguide device on a silicon-on-insulator (SOI) …

Amorphous silicon in microphotonics

AM Agarwal, J Michel - Springer Handbook of Glass, 2019 - Springer
Amorphous silicon () is an attractive high-refractive-index material for waveguide
applications because of its flexible deposition conditions, which do not rely on the existence …

High-performance silicon photonics technology for telecommunications applications

K Yamada, T Tsuchizawa, H Nishi, R Kou… - … and Technology of …, 2014 - iopscience.iop.org
By way of a brief review of Si photonics technology, we show that significant improvements
in device performance are necessary for practical telecommunications applications. In order …

Low-loss amorphous Si waveguides with gradient refractive index cladding structure

W Qiu, J Wang - Chinese Optics Letters, 2012 - opg.optica.org
Amorphous Si waveguides with gradient refractive index cladding structure are proposed
and fabricated using plasma-enhanced chemical vapor deposition method. Compared with …

50 Gbps data transmission through amorphous silicon interlayer grating couplers with metal mirrors

JH Kang, Y Atsumi, Y Hayashi, J Suzuki… - Applied Physics …, 2014 - iopscience.iop.org
The fabrication of highly efficient interlayer grating couplers for multilayered a-Si: H
waveguides by introducing two metal mirrors to reflect back the diffracted light was …

Compact arrayed-waveguide grating on silicon-on-insulator with integrated waveguide turning mirrors

L Guang-Bo, G Zhao, J Ke-Miao… - Chinese Physics …, 2005 - iopscience.iop.org
A compact arrayed-waveguide grating (AWG) on the silicon-on-insulator material is
designed and fabricated with employment of waveguide-integrated turning mirrors (WITMs) …

Simulation and fabrication of amorphous silicon rib-type arrayed waveguide grating

WJ Liu, YH Cheng, S Chen, IT Lai… - … and Materials II, 2005 - spiedigitallibrary.org
Amorphous silicon SOI-AWG device with 59% extra high refractive index difference (Δ) and
the transmission spectrum of AWG's device indicated the insertion loss, crosstalk and side …

Research Progress in Silicon Photonic Arrayed Waveguide Grating Devices

X Chen, J Hu, Z Zhang, L Ma, H Chen… - Laser & Optoelectronics …, 2018 - researching.cn
The silicon photonic arrayed waveguide grating (AWG) is an important device for achieving
silicon-based photonic integration. We describe the research progress in the AWG based on …