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17 March 2023 Metamaterial cladding for bending loss reduction in silicon nitride waveguide
Gilliard N. Malheiros-Silveira
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Abstract
In this work, an integrated platform based on silicon nitride strip waveguides is used as a reference platform to investigate some waveguiding characteristics in metamaterial cladding. The novel platform is composed of an alldielectric anisotropic metamaterial cladding positioned at the bottom of a silicon nitride waveguide core. The fundamental TM mode showed a bend loss reduction of about 1.8 dB/180˚ in comparison to a standard platform.
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Gilliard N. Malheiros-Silveira "Metamaterial cladding for bending loss reduction in silicon nitride waveguide", Proc. SPIE 12424, Integrated Optics: Devices, Materials, and Technologies XXVII, 124241H (17 March 2023); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2665862
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KEYWORDS
Waveguides

Metamaterials

Silicon nitride

Silicon

Optical metamaterials

Dielectrics

Refractive index

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