Mid-infrared photonics in silicon and germanium

By Richard A. Soref. 2010

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Subfields: Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics, Electrical and Electronic Engineering

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Integrated high-quality factor silicon-on-sapphire ring resonators for the mid-infrared (2013, background): “Silicon has previously been proposed as an ideal material for the mid-infrared (MIR), due to its low material losses below 8 μm [1-2].”
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