Review Article
Hybrid Materials for Integrated Photonics
Table 1
The nonlinear refractive index
, the nonlinear absorption coefficient
, and figure of merit (FOM) for typical materials measured around
m.
| Material | | | FOM | [10−13 cm2/W | [cm/GW] | |
| Fused silica [55] | 0.0027 | ⋯ | ⋯ | Semiconductors | | | | Si [56] | 0.45 | 0.79 | 0.37 | GaAs [56] | 1.59 | 10.2 | 0.1 | AlGaAs [57] | 1.75 | 0.35 | 3.2 | Chalcogenide glass [58] | | | | | 0.6 | 0.4 | 1.0 | | 1.5 | 0.4 | 2.4 | | 24.6 | 0.5 | 3.2 | | 1.2 | 0.15 | 5.0 | | 0.6 | <0.03 | >12.0 | Polymers | | | | DDMEBT [59] | 1.7 | ⋯ | 2.19 |
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