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Low propagation loss silicon-on-sapphire waveguides for the mid-infrared
Fangxin Li1, Stuart D Jackson, Christian Grillet
1Centre for Ultrahigh-bandwidth Devices for Optical Systems, Institute of Photonics and Optical Science, School of Physics, NSW 2006, Australia.
Optics Express
|September 22, 2011
Abstract:
We report record low loss silicon-on-sapphire nanowires for applications to mid infrared optics. We achieve propagation losses as low as 0.8 dB/cm at λ = 1550 nm, ~1.1 to 1.4 dB/cm at λ = 2080 nm and < 2dB/cm at λ = 5.18 μm.

