Low propagation loss silicon-on-sapphire waveguides for the mid-infrared
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Li, Fangxin
Jackson, Stuart D
Grillet, Christian
Magi, Eric
Hudson, Darren
Madden, Steven J.
Moghe, Yashodhan
O’Brien, Christopher
Read, Andrew
Duvall, Steven G.
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Optical Society of America
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We report record low loss silicon-on-sapphire nanowires for applications to mid infrared optics. We achieve propagation losses as low as 0.8dB/cm at λ = 1550nm, ~1.1 to 1.4dB/cm at λ = 2080nm and < 2dB/cm at λ = 5.18 μm.
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Optics Express