Low-loss titanium-dioxide strip waveguides by atomic layer deposition

In this paper we describe an approach to reduce the propagation loss in titanium dioxide strip waveguides. We achieved to reduce losses down to 2.4 dB/cm in 1 μm-wide waveguide at λ=1550 nm.

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