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13 - Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Metallurgy and Materials

University of Southampton

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Article title

Low loss silicon fibers for photonics applications

Type

D - Journal article

DOI

10.1063/1.3294630

Title of journal

Applied Physics Letters

Article number

Volume number

Issue number

First page of article

041105

ISSN of journal

0003-6951

Year of publication

2010

URL

http://www.orc.soton.ac.uk/viewpublication.html?pid=4608

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Additional information

Significance of output:

We describe a route to depositing low loss hydrogenated-amorphous silicon (a-Si:H) inside optical fibres; an emerging material exhibiting immense potential in silicon photonics due to its large nonlinear properties of use for signal processing applications. The excellent quality of the a-Si:H material has enabled the first demonstrations of high speed (sub-picosecond) all-optical modulation (http://dx.doi.org/10.1364/OE.19.019078) and switching (http://dx.doi.org/10.1364/OE.20.026110). This materials breakthrough has cumulated in five invited talks at major OSA conferences across the USA and Asia, including the OSA Optics and Photonics Congress, Photonics North, and Photonics Global. It was a cornerstone result for EPSRC grants EP/G051755/1 and EP/I035307/1 (2010-2014, ~£1M).

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Cross-referral requested

Research group

None

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