Silicon waveguides and ring resonators at 5.5 µm

We fabricate and characterize silicon waveguides and ring resonators around 5.5 µm on the Silicon-on-Sapphire (SOS) platform. The waveguide loss is 4.1 ± 0.7 dB/cm, and a Q value of 1.4k is achieved.

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