Chalcogenide glass waveguides in etched silica cladding (Conference Presentation)

Moshe Katzman; Dvir Munk; Mirit Hen; Arik Bergman; Mark Oksman; Yuri Kaganovskii; Michael Rosenbluh; Avinoam Zadok

doi:10.1117/12.2293344

14 March 2018 Chalcogenide glass waveguides in etched silica cladding (Conference Presentation)

Moshe Katzman, Dvir Munk, Mirit Hen, Arik Bergman, Mark Oksman, Yuri Kaganovskii, Michael Rosenbluh, Avinoam Zadok

Proceedings Volume 10535, Integrated Optics: Devices, Materials, and Technologies XXII; 105350A (2018) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2293344
Event: SPIE OPTO, 2018, San Francisco, California, United States

Abstract

Chalcogenide glasses (ChGs) exhibit high refractive indices, broad transparency windows, pronounced nonlinearities, and photo-sensitivity effects. Waveguides are fabricated in ChGs layers using dry etching, nano-imprint lithography, or direct laser-beam writing. Ultra-high stimulated Brillouin scattering amplification was demonstrated in ChG waveguides. Efficient Brillouin scattering requires tight confinement of guided optical and acoustic modes with large overlap. Here we present waveguides consisted of a ChG core and silica cladding. Devices are fabricated in silica-on-silicon wafers. The silica layer is dry-etched through a Cr hard mask. Etching defines either isolated trenches or isolated pedestals in the silica layer, with widths of 1-3 µm and heights between 0.5-2 µm. A 300 nm-thick layer of As2S3 glass is deposited onto the sample by thermal evaporation. Deposition partially fills the etched silica trenches with a ChG core region, or alternatively forms a core region on top of silica pedestals with air on three sides. A thin upper layer of resist is applied for protection. The waveguide structure provides two potential advantages: tight confinement of both guided optical and acoustic modes in small-area ChG cores, and no processing of the ChG layer following deposition. The end-to-end losses of a 4 mm-long device with a 600 nm-wide core were 20 dB. Losses are primarily due to coupling to/from fibers at the facets. Four-wave mixing between two continuous-wave pumps of 10 mW power was demonstrated, with efficiency on the order of -60 dB. The linear and nonlinear characterization of longer devices is ongoing.

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Moshe Katzman, Dvir Munk, Mirit Hen, Arik Bergman, Mark Oksman, Yuri Kaganovskii, Michael Rosenbluh, and Avinoam Zadok "Chalcogenide glass waveguides in etched silica cladding (Conference Presentation)", Proc. SPIE 10535, Integrated Optics: Devices, Materials, and Technologies XXII, 105350A (14 March 2018); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2293344

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Silica

Waveguides

Chalcogenide glass

Nonlinear optics

Acoustics

Cladding

Laser scattering

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