Study of Group III-V Waveguides on Sapphire Platform for Photonic Integrated Circuits

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Main Authors: Shah, Manoj Kumar, Soref, Richard A., Zhang, Diandian, Du, Wei, Salamo, Gregory J., Yu, Shui-Qing, Mortazavi, Mansour
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author Shah, Manoj Kumar
Soref, Richard A.
Zhang, Diandian
Du, Wei
Salamo, Gregory J.
Yu, Shui-Qing
Mortazavi, Mansour
author_facet Shah, Manoj Kumar
Soref, Richard A.
Zhang, Diandian
Du, Wei
Salamo, Gregory J.
Yu, Shui-Qing
Mortazavi, Mansour
contents Photonic integrated circuits (PICs) have been acknowledged as the promising platforms for the applications in data communication, Lidar in autonomous driving vehicles, innovative sensor technology, etc. Since the demonstration of optical components individually, integration of both electronics and photonics for functional devices on a common platform has been a key technology driver enhancing the stability and scalability of integrated photonic technologies. Recently, we proposed to use sapphire as a high-performance PIC platform, which enables a fully integrated solution to include a complete set of components with light source, modulator, light detection, passive devices, silicon on sapphire control circuit all-in-one sapphire platform to achieve high-performance low-cost mixed-signal optical links. In parallel to developing ac-tive components such as group III-V lasers on sapphire, in this work, the performance of group III-V straight waveguides on sapphire was systemically studied. The refractive indices contrast between GaAs, InP, GaSb, and sapphire are sufficiently high to achieve low loss over a broad optical wavelength. The calculated loss at wavelengths of 1330 nm, 1550 nm, and 2000 nm for the GaAs, InP, and GaSb rib waveguides are 0.32 dB/cm, 0.67 dB/cm, and 0.70 dB/cm, re-spectively. Since the fundamental element to construct all passive building blocks is the straight waveguide, results from this work would allow us to assess other basic passive building blocks.
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spellingShingle Study of Group III-V Waveguides on Sapphire Platform for Photonic Integrated Circuits
Shah, Manoj Kumar
Soref, Richard A.
Zhang, Diandian
Du, Wei
Salamo, Gregory J.
Yu, Shui-Qing
Mortazavi, Mansour
Optics
Applied Physics
Photonic integrated circuits (PICs) have been acknowledged as the promising platforms for the applications in data communication, Lidar in autonomous driving vehicles, innovative sensor technology, etc. Since the demonstration of optical components individually, integration of both electronics and photonics for functional devices on a common platform has been a key technology driver enhancing the stability and scalability of integrated photonic technologies. Recently, we proposed to use sapphire as a high-performance PIC platform, which enables a fully integrated solution to include a complete set of components with light source, modulator, light detection, passive devices, silicon on sapphire control circuit all-in-one sapphire platform to achieve high-performance low-cost mixed-signal optical links. In parallel to developing ac-tive components such as group III-V lasers on sapphire, in this work, the performance of group III-V straight waveguides on sapphire was systemically studied. The refractive indices contrast between GaAs, InP, GaSb, and sapphire are sufficiently high to achieve low loss over a broad optical wavelength. The calculated loss at wavelengths of 1330 nm, 1550 nm, and 2000 nm for the GaAs, InP, and GaSb rib waveguides are 0.32 dB/cm, 0.67 dB/cm, and 0.70 dB/cm, re-spectively. Since the fundamental element to construct all passive building blocks is the straight waveguide, results from this work would allow us to assess other basic passive building blocks.
title Study of Group III-V Waveguides on Sapphire Platform for Photonic Integrated Circuits
topic Optics
Applied Physics
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2411.13035