Optical properties of epitaxial Ca x Ba 1-x Nb 2 O 6 thin film based rib-waveguide structure on (001) MgO for electro-optic applications

Optical properties of epitaxial Ca x Ba 1-x Nb 2 O 6 thin film based rib-waveguide structure on (001) MgO for electro-optic applications

In this work, optical properties of epitaxial Ca Ba Nb O , CBN (x = 0.28) thin film based waveguides are studied at 1550 nm optical communications wavelength. CBN thin films are deposited epitaxially on MgO substrates using Pulsed Laser Deposition and characterized by prism coupling to extract the r...

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Published in:Optics express Vol. 24; no. 25; p. 28573
Main Authors: Vigne, Sébastien, Hossain, Nadir, Fesharaki, Faezeh, Kabir, S M Humayun, Margot, Joëlle, Wu, Ke, Chaker, Mohamed
Format: Journal Article
Language:English
Published: United States 12-12-2016
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Summary:In this work, optical properties of epitaxial Ca Ba Nb O , CBN (x = 0.28) thin film based waveguides are studied at 1550 nm optical communications wavelength. CBN thin films are deposited epitaxially on MgO substrates using Pulsed Laser Deposition and characterized by prism coupling to extract the refractive index and propagation loss. It is shown that the 2 µm-thick epitaxial CBN thin films have a refractive index close to the bulk form and the CBN planar waveguides have a propagation loss of 4.3 ± 0.5 dB/cm. 1 cm-long rib waveguide structures were fabricated using a high density plasma etching. Their propagation losses were measured by the cutback method at 8.4 ± 0.6 dB/cm.
ISSN:1094-4087