Flexible all-glass planar structured fabricated by RF-sputtering

Flexible SiO 2 /HfO 2 1D photonic crystals and active SiO 2 –HfO 2 :Er 3+ all-glass flexible planar waveguides fabricated by radio frequency sputtering, are presented. The 1D photonic crystals show a strong dependence of the optical features on the light incident angle: i) blue-shift of the stopband...

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Published inEPJ Web of conferences Vol. 266; p. 6003
Main Authors Carlotto, Alice, Sayginer, Osman, Szczurek, Anna, Tran, Lam T. N., Dell’Anna, Rossana, Varas, Stefano, Babiarczuk, Bartosz, Krzak, Justyna, Bursi, Oreste S., Zonta, Daniele, Lukowiak, Anna, Righini, Giancarlo C., Ferrari, Maurizio, Pietralunga, Silvia M., Chiasera, Alessandro
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published EDP Sciences 2022
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Summary:Flexible SiO 2 /HfO 2 1D photonic crystals and active SiO 2 –HfO 2 :Er 3+ all-glass flexible planar waveguides fabricated by radio frequency sputtering, are presented. The 1D photonic crystals show a strong dependence of the optical features on the light incident angle: i) blue-shift of the stopband and ii) narrowing of the reflectance window. Nevertheless, the most interesting result is the experimental evidence that, even after the 1D photonic crystals breakage, where the flexible glass shows naked-eye visible cracks, the multilayer structures generally maintain their integrity, resulting to be promising systems for flexible photonic applications thanks to their optical, thermal and mechanical stability. The flexible planar waveguides, fabricated on ultrathin flexible glass substrate, showed an attenuation coefficient lower than 0.2 dB/cm at 1.54 μm, and exibits emission in the NIR region, resulting particularly suitable as waveguide amplifier in the C band of telecommunications.
ISSN:2100-014X
2100-014X
DOI:10.1051/epjconf/202226606003