Reducing the optical loss of polysilicon waveguide in bulk CMOS by waveguide geometry engineering

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Song, Zhan-Wen [1 ]
Tang, Cheng-Tse [1 ]
Lee, San-Liang [2 ]
Hung, Yung-, Jr. [1 ]
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[1] Natl Sun Yat Sen Univ, Dept Photon, Kaohsiung 80424, Taiwan
[2] Natl Taiwan Univ Sci & Technol, Taipei 104, Taiwan
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polysilicon; bulk CMOS; subwavelength grating waveguide;
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TM [电工技术]; TN [电子技术、通信技术];
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Based on the zero-process-change methodology, we successfully reduce the propagation loss of polysilicon waveguide from 112 dB/cm to only 38 dB/cm by applying subwavelength grating waveguide (SWG) design. Low propagation loss in SWG waveguide is attributed to a significantly reduced optical overlap factor of 0.09 to bulk polysilicon. This achievement can not be made by solely shrinking the waveguide dimension, thus validates a promising design path towards practical photonic-electronic applications in bulk CMOS.
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