Silicon-on-Insulator Slot-waveguide Design Trade-offs

Patrick Steglich, Claus Villringer, Silvio Dümecke, Yazmin Padilla Michel, Mauro Casalboni, Sigurd Schrader

2015

Abstract

Silicon-on-insulator slot-waveguide structures are designed and analysed numerically. We present our theoretical investigation of field confinement factors and effective nonlinear areas for different waveguide structures in order to find optimized geometrical dimensions. It is shown that a slot-waveguide with a height of 220 nm, a slot width of 180 nm and a silicon rail width of 180 nm provides a five times higher field confinement in the cladding region compared to conventional strip-waveguides which explains the high sensitivity of slotwaveguide based label-free bio-sensors.

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Steglich P., Villringer C., Dümecke S., Padilla Michel Y., Casalboni M. and Schrader S. (2015). Silicon-on-Insulator Slot-waveguide Design Trade-offs . In Proceedings of the 3rd International Conference on Photonics, Optics and Laser Technology - Volume 2: PHOTOPTICS, ISBN 978-989-758-093-2, pages 47-52. DOI: 10.5220/0005336200470052


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@conference{photoptics15,
author={Patrick Steglich and Claus Villringer and Silvio Dümecke and Yazmin Padilla Michel and Mauro Casalboni and Sigurd Schrader},
title={Silicon-on-Insulator Slot-waveguide Design Trade-offs},
booktitle={Proceedings of the 3rd International Conference on Photonics, Optics and Laser Technology - Volume 2: PHOTOPTICS,},
year={2015},
pages={47-52},
publisher={SciTePress},
organization={INSTICC},
doi={10.5220/0005336200470052},
isbn={978-989-758-093-2},
}


in EndNote Style

TY - CONF
JO - Proceedings of the 3rd International Conference on Photonics, Optics and Laser Technology - Volume 2: PHOTOPTICS,
TI - Silicon-on-Insulator Slot-waveguide Design Trade-offs
SN - 978-989-758-093-2
AU - Steglich P.
AU - Villringer C.
AU - Dümecke S.
AU - Padilla Michel Y.
AU - Casalboni M.
AU - Schrader S.
PY - 2015
SP - 47
EP - 52
DO - 10.5220/0005336200470052