Athermal silicon waveguides with bridged subwavelength gratings for TE and TM polarizations
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In this paper, athermal silicon waveguides using bridged subwavelength grating (BSWG) structures are proposed and investigated. The realization of temperature-independent BSWG waveguides for both polarizations is demonstrated numerically and experimentally. SU-8 polymer is used as the cladding material to compensate for the positive thermo-optic (TO) coefficient (dn/dT) of silicon. We investigate the dependence of the effective TO coefficient of BSWG waveguides on both the bridge width and grating duty cycle. The BSWG waveguides have a width of 490 nm, a height of 260 nm, and a grating pitch of 250 nm. Athermal behavior is achieved for both the transverse-magnetic (TM) and the transverse-electric (TE) polarized light for a variety of bridge width and duty cycle combinations. Furthermore, the BSWGs can be designed to be athermal for both TE and TM polarization simultaneously.
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- Ibrahim, M., Schmid, J. H., Aleali, A., Cheben, P., Lapointe, J., Janz, S., Bock, P. J., Densmore, A., Lamontagne, B., Ma, R., Xu, D.-X., & Ye, W. N. (2012). Athermal silicon waveguides with bridged subwavelength gratings for TE and TM polarizations. Optics Express, 20(16), 18356. https://doi.org/10.1364/oe.20.018356
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