Abstract
An uniform silicon waveguide is proposed featuring ultralow-dispersion slow light. The core of the waveguide consists of one silicon trip and two pairs of air/silicon strip and the cladding is composed of several alternative silicon and air strips, which form a transverse band gap to confine propagating light in the core. The waveguide has several nearly linear photonic bands in a large frequency range, which can support broadband slow modes with a group velocity of 0.03–0.08c and tolerable group velocity dispersion.
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Jiang, C. Uniform silicon slow light waveguide. Appl. Phys. B 102, 49–52 (2011). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00340-010-4343-9
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