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  • Waveguide-integrated mid-in...
    Goldstein, Jordan; Lin, Hongtao; Deckoff-Jones, Skylar; Hempel, Marek; Lu, Ang-Yu; Richardson, Kathleen A; Palacios, Tomás; Kong, Jing; Hu, Juejun; Englund, Dirk

    Nature communications, 07/2022, Letnik: 13, Številka: 1
    Journal Article

    Abstract The development of compact and fieldable mid-infrared (mid-IR) spectroscopy devices represents a critical challenge for distributed sensing with applications from gas leak detection to environmental monitoring. Recent work has focused on mid-IR photonic integrated circuit (PIC) sensing platforms and waveguide-integrated mid-IR light sources and detectors based on semiconductors such as PbTe, black phosphorus and tellurene. However, material bandgaps and reliance on SiO 2 substrates limit operation to wavelengths λ  ≲ 4 μm. Here we overcome these challenges with a chalcogenide glass-on-CaF 2 PIC architecture incorporating split-gate photothermoelectric graphene photodetectors. Our design extends operation to λ  = 5.2 μm with a Johnson noise-limited noise-equivalent power of 1.1 nW/Hz 1/2 , no fall-off in photoresponse up to f  = 1 MHz, and a predicted 3-dB bandwidth of f 3dB  > 1 GHz. This mid-IR PIC platform readily extends to longer wavelengths and opens the door to applications from distributed gas sensing and portable dual comb spectroscopy to weather-resilient free space optical communications.