Integrated flexible chalcogenide glass photonic devices

    Authors

    Nat. Photonics

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    Abbreviated Journal Title

    Appl. Optics

    Keywords

    HIGH-INDEX-CONTRAST; WAVE-GUIDES; SILICON; RESONATORS; CIRCUITS; ELECTRONICS; FABRICATION; DISPERSION; CRYSTALS; PLATFORM; Optics; Physics, Applied

    Abstract

    Photonic integration on thin flexible plastic substrates is important for emerging applications ranging from the realization of flexible interconnects to conformal sensors applied to the skin. Such devices are traditionally fabricated using pattern transfer, which is complicated and has limited integration capacity. Here, we report a convenient monolithic approach to realize flexible, integrated high-index-contrast chalcogenide glass photonic devices. By developing local neutral axis designs and suitable fabrication techniques, we realize a suite of photonic devices including waveguides, microdisk resonators, add-drop filters and photonic crystals that have excellent optical performance and mechanical flexibility, enabling repeated bending down to sub-millimetre radii without measurable performance degradation. The approach offers a facile fabrication route for three-dimensional high-index-contrast photonics that are difficult to create using traditional methods.

    Subjects

    L. Li; H. T. Lin; S. T. Qiao; Y. Zou; S. Danto; K. Richardson; J. D. Musgraves; N. S. Lu;J. J. Hu

    Volume

    8

    Issue/Number

    8

    Publication Date

    1-1-2014

    Document Type

    Article

    Language

    English

    First Page

    643

    Last Page

    649

    WOS Identifier

    WOS:000340140200015

    ISSN

    1749-4885

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