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JOURNAL OF APPLIED PHYSICS
Volume 99, Issue 7, Pages -Publisher
AMER INST PHYSICS
DOI: 10.1063/1.2181310
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The excess optical attenuation at wavelengths around 1550 nm induced by subamorphous dose ion implantation of silicon-on-insulator rib waveguides has been quantified. Optical attenuation is related to the introduction of lattice defects such as the silicon divacancy. After 2.8 MeV Si+ implantation at a dose of 2.5x10(14) cm(-2), the attenuation is greater than 1000 dB cm(-1). Using positron annihilation spectroscopy to determine the vacancy-type defect concentration, it is demonstrated that the absorption component of the excess attenuation can be predicted using a simple analytical expression. Additional losses are suggested to result from a defect induced change in the real part of the refractive index of the silicon waveguide. A processing strategy for ensuring that the absorption component dominates the excess attenuation is described, and it is shown that selective implantation of a relatively low dose of inert ions is an efficient method for the reduction of optical cross talk in silicon photonic circuits.
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