Review Article

Photonic Integration on the Hybrid Silicon Evanescent Device Platform

Figure 9

The confinement factor in III-V region simulation for different silicon waveguide height (a) confinement factor calculations for the fundamental mode and second transverse mode as a function of waveguide height (b) fundamental and second transverse modes for waveguide heights of 0.7, 0.475, and 0.4 μm. The image aspect ratio (Height:Width) is 4 : 1.
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