Polymer/Perovskite Amplifying Waveguides for Active Hybrid Silicon Photonics

Isaac Suárez; Emilio J Juárez-Pérez; Juan Bisquert; Iván Mora-Seró; Juan P Martínez-Pastor

doi:10.1002/adma.201503245

Polymer/Perovskite Amplifying Waveguides for Active Hybrid Silicon Photonics

Adv Mater. 2015 Oct 28;27(40):6157-62. doi: 10.1002/adma.201503245. Epub 2015 Aug 31.

Authors

Isaac Suárez¹, Emilio J Juárez-Pérez², Juan Bisquert³, Iván Mora-Seró², Juan P Martínez-Pastor¹

Affiliations

¹ UMDO, Instituto de Ciencia de los Materiales, Universidad de Valencia, 46071, Valencia, Spain.
² Institute of Advanced Materials (INAM), Universitat Jaume I, 12006, Castelló, Spain.
³ Department of Chemistry, Faculty of ScienceKing Abdulaziz University, Jeddah, 21589, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia.

PMID: 26331838
DOI: 10.1002/adma.201503245

Abstract

The emission properties of hybrid halide perovskites are exploited to implement a stable and very low power operation waveguide optical amplifier integrated in a silicon platform. By optimizing its design with a poly(methyl methacrylate) (PMMA) encapsulation, this novel photonic device presents a net gain of around 10 dB cm(-1) and 3-4 nm linewidth with an energy threshold as low as 2 nJ pulse(-1) and exhibiting no degradation after one year.

Keywords: lead halide perovskites; light amplifiers; optical gain; polymers; silicon photonics; waveguides.