New method for direct laser writing of high performances near and mid-infrared waveguides

P. Masselin (1) , E. Bychkov (1) , David Le Coq (2)

1 LPCA - Laboratoire de Physico-Chimie de l'Atmosphère
2 ISCR - Institut des Sciences Chimiques de Rennes

We present a new procedure for direct laser writing of high performance waveguides in chalcogenide glass. The propagation losses are measured to be lower than 0.2 dB/cm both in the near- (λ = 155 μm) and in the mid-infrared (λ = 45 μm). © 2018 The Author(s).

Mots clés: Nanophotonics; Photonics; Waveguides; Chalcogenide glass; Direct laser writing; Midinfrared; Propagation loss; Infrared devices

Domaines: Chimie

P. Masselin, E. Bychkov, David Le Coq. New method for direct laser writing of high performances near and mid-infrared waveguides. Integrated Photonics Research, Silicon and Nanophotonics, IPRSN 2018, Jul 2018, Zurich, Switzerland. ⟨10.1364/IPRSN.2018.IW4I.6⟩. ⟨hal-01875218⟩