GaAs/polymer optical nanowires : fabrication and characterisation

D. Lauvernier (1) , Sophie Garidel (1) , Malek Zegaoui (1) , Jean-Pierre Vilcot (1) , Didier Decoster (1)

1 IEMN - Institut d’Électronique, de Microélectronique et de Nanotechnologie - UMR 8520

The fabrication and propagation loss measurement of GaAs/polymer optical nanowires are reported. Their design consists of a 300×300 nm cross-section GaAs core buried into a polymer matrix bonded on a Si host substrate. The propagation loss at λ=1.55 μm is measured as about 5 dB/mm for both polarisations.

Domaines: Sciences de l'ingénieur [physics]

D. Lauvernier, Sophie Garidel, Malek Zegaoui, Jean-Pierre Vilcot, Didier Decoster. GaAs/polymer optical nanowires : fabrication and characterisation. Electronics Letters, 2006, 42 (4), pp.217-219. ⟨10.1049/el:20063869⟩. ⟨hal-00130860⟩