Abstract
The feasibility of telluride based single-mode waveguides being able to guide light in the infrared region [1–16μm] is demonstrated. The rib waveguides comprise a silicon substrate, two Te–Ge–Se films deposited by thermal co-evaporation. The first one plays the role of a cladding layer while the second is the core layer. In order to control the light confinement, the second layer is further etched by reactive ion etching in CHF3/O2/Ar atmosphere. The obtained structures behaved as channel waveguides with a single-mode transmission demonstrated at 1.55μm. Transmission optical losses were evaluated by the cut-back method on the very first prototypes and were comprised between 0.6 and 1.8dBcm−1.
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