TY - JOUR
T1 - High Refractive Index Chalcogenide Hybrid Inorganic/Organic Polymers for Integrated Photonics
AU - Nishant, Abhinav
AU - Kim, Kyung Jo
AU - Showghi, Sasaan A.
AU - Himmelhuber, Roland
AU - Kleine, Tristan S.
AU - Lee, Taeheon
AU - Pyun, Jeffrey
AU - Norwood, Robert A.
N1 - Funding Information:
The authors acknowledge National Science Foundation (PFI‐RP 1940942, MRI‐1920234, DMREF‐2118578, CHE‐1807395, MRI‐ECCS‐1725571), the Air Force Research Laboratories (FA8650‐16‐D‐5404), the RII Research Advancement Grant program, and the Hitachi Electron Microscopy scholarship for support of this work.
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© 2022 Wiley-VCH GmbH.
PY - 2022/8/18
Y1 - 2022/8/18
N2 - Optical polymer-based integrated photonic devices are gaining interest for applications in optical packaging, biosensing, and augmented/virtual reality (AR/VR). The low refractive index of conventional organic polymers has been a barrier to realizing dense, low footprint photonic devices. The fabrication and characterization of integrated photonic devices using a new class of high refractive index polymers, chalcogenide hybrid inorganic/organic polymers (CHIPs), which possess high refractive indices and lower optical losses compared to traditional hydrocarbon-based polymers, are reported. These optical polymers are derived from elemental sulfur via the inverse vulcanization process, which allows for inexpensive monomers to be used for these materials. A facile fabrication strategy using CHIPs via lithography is described for single-mode optical waveguides, Y junction splitters, multimode interferometers (MMIs), and high Q factor ring resonators, along with device characterization. Furthermore, propagation losses of 0.4 dB cm−1 near 1550 nm wavelength, which is the lowest measured loss in non-fluorinated optical polymer waveguides, coupled with the benefits of low cost materials and manufacturing are reported. Ring resonators with Q factor on the order of 6 × 104 and cavity finesse of 45, which are some of the highest values reported for optical polymer-based ring resonators, are also reported.
AB - Optical polymer-based integrated photonic devices are gaining interest for applications in optical packaging, biosensing, and augmented/virtual reality (AR/VR). The low refractive index of conventional organic polymers has been a barrier to realizing dense, low footprint photonic devices. The fabrication and characterization of integrated photonic devices using a new class of high refractive index polymers, chalcogenide hybrid inorganic/organic polymers (CHIPs), which possess high refractive indices and lower optical losses compared to traditional hydrocarbon-based polymers, are reported. These optical polymers are derived from elemental sulfur via the inverse vulcanization process, which allows for inexpensive monomers to be used for these materials. A facile fabrication strategy using CHIPs via lithography is described for single-mode optical waveguides, Y junction splitters, multimode interferometers (MMIs), and high Q factor ring resonators, along with device characterization. Furthermore, propagation losses of 0.4 dB cm−1 near 1550 nm wavelength, which is the lowest measured loss in non-fluorinated optical polymer waveguides, coupled with the benefits of low cost materials and manufacturing are reported. Ring resonators with Q factor on the order of 6 × 104 and cavity finesse of 45, which are some of the highest values reported for optical polymer-based ring resonators, are also reported.
KW - high refractive index
KW - integrated photonics
KW - polymers
KW - ring resonators
KW - waveguides
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U2 - 10.1002/adom.202200176
DO - 10.1002/adom.202200176
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:85130796233
SN - 2195-1071
VL - 10
JO - Advanced Optical Materials
JF - Advanced Optical Materials
IS - 16
M1 - 2200176
ER -