Hydex Glass: a CMOS Compatible Platform for Integrated Waveguide Structures for Nonlinear Optics

TL;DR

This paper discusses Hydex Glass as a CMOS-compatible platform for integrated waveguide structures, enabling advancements in nonlinear optics crucial for future high-performance optical telecommunications.

Contribution

It introduces Hydex Glass as a novel, CMOS-compatible material platform for integrated waveguides in nonlinear optics applications.

Findings

Hydex Glass supports low-loss, high-efficiency waveguides.

The platform enables scalable integration for optical communications.

Potential for reduced energy consumption in photonic devices.

Abstract

Integrated photonic technologies are rapidly becoming an important and fundamental milestone for wideband optical telecommunications. Future optical networks have several critical requirements, including low energy consumption, high efficiency, greater bandwidth and flexibility, which must be addressed in a compact form factor.