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- Title
Sc<sub>2</sub>O<sub>3</sub> on sapphire all-crystalline grating–waveguide resonant reflectors.
- Authors
Mourkioti, Georgia; Bashir, Danish; Govindassamy, Goby A.; Li, Fangfang; Eason, Robert W.; Graf, Thomas; Abdou Ahmed, Marwan; Mackenzie, Jacob I.
- Abstract
This paper reports the fabrication and first demonstration of all-dielectric crystalline grating–waveguide reflectors comprising a Sc2O3 waveguide grown on a sub-wavelength-patterned sapphire substrate. Rigorous coupled-wave analysis is employed to simulate the operation of the structure, suggesting a 100% resonance reflectivity in theory. Structuring of the sapphire substrate is achieved using inductively coupled plasma etching, whilst pulsed laser deposition is used for epitaxial growth of the Sc2O3 crystalline waveguide. Devices with distinct TE- and TM-polarisation resonances around 1030-nm for an angle of incidence near 10° are demonstrated, with reflectance approaching 90%. The discrepancy in reflectivity is attributed to the waveguide thickness variation and surface roughness. Refinement of the fabrication processes and tolerances should lead to improvement in the surface quality of the crystalline grating–waveguide structure and operation closer to the ideal resonance reflectivity.
- Subjects
SAPPHIRES; PULSED laser deposition; DIELECTRIC waveguides; EPITAXY; PLASMA etching; CRYSTAL structure; SURFACE roughness
- Publication
Applied Physics B: Lasers & Optics, 2023, Vol 129, Issue 5, p1
- ISSN
0946-2171
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1007/s00340-023-08009-8