Ultralow loss ring resonators using 3.5% index-contrast Ge-doped silica waveguides
- 29 April 2003
- journal article
- Published by Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) in IEEE Photonics Technology Letters
- Vol. 15 (5) , 709-711
- https://doi.org/10.1109/LPT.2003.809925
Abstract
Ring resonators (RRs) with a round-trip loss below 0.1 dB and a maximum free-spectral range (FSR) of 62.7 GHz were successfully fabricated. Single-mode waveguides of essentially square cross sections (/spl sim/2.6 /spl times/ 2.8 /spl mu/m/sup 2/) were patterned through reactive ion etching on a core layer of high Ge content doped silica deposited using plasma-enhanced chemical vapor deposition; they received a silica overclad. A propagation loss of 0.085 dB/cm was recorded for these waveguides. We strongly believe that our technology makes it possible to fabricate equally ultralow-loss RRs of even smaller bending radius, reaching an FSR of 100 GHz, thus opening the way to the design of filters for wavelength-division-multiplexing systems.Keywords
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