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Extending the Supercontinuum Spectrum in Fully Etched Thick Aluminum Nitride Waveguides

Sbarra, Samantha  
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Brunetta, Samuele  
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Carlin, Jean François  
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2025
2025 Conference on Lasers and Electro-Optics Europe and European Quantum Electronics Conference, CLEO/Europe-EQEC 2025
2025 Conference on Lasers and Electro-Optics Europe & European Quantum Electronics Conference

The engineering of aluminum nitride (AlN) waveguides allows for broad supercontinuum generation (SCG) within its wide transparency window (200 nm - 5.5 μm) enabling applications in precision spectroscopy and metrology fields. An efficient coverage from 500 to 3500 nm was shown by pumping crystalline AlN waveguides with a femtosecond laser centered at 1560 nm [1]. UV and visible coverage was reached by pumping around 800 nm and by chirping the waveguide [2] or by exploiting the modal dispersion of higher-order modes [3]. An effective approach to further expand the SC range to the MIR lies in engineering the waveguide dispersion adjusting both its height and width, to extend the anomalous dispersion around the pump and to increase the spectral separation of long and short-dispersion waves (LWDW, SWDW). While the waveguide width is determined by the lithographic process used to transfer the chip design to the material substrate and is easily tunable with high precision, the height is fixed by the epitaxial growth process of the epilayer, limiting the choice of this dimension to the available commercial standards. Thanks to in-house crystalline AlN epitaxial layer growth facilities, we obtain high quality AlN layers up to 1.3 µm thick on c-plane sapphire. This gives us an additional degree of freedom in the dispersion engineering of waveguides for SCG. In addition, we developed the fabrication process to obtain fully etched waveguides to improve mode confinement. This required adjusting the thickness of the lithographic mask without compromising the quality of the sidewalls. We achieve propagation losses of 0.24 dB/cm at 1550 nm as shown in the ring Q-factor measurement in Fig. 1(a).

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DOI
10.1109/CLEO/EUROPE-EQEC65582.2025.11110287
Scopus ID

2-s2.0-105016209155

Author(s)
Sbarra, Samantha  

École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne

Brunetta, Samuele  

École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne

Carlin, Jean François  

École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne

Grandjean, Nicolas  

École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne

Butté, Raphaël  

École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne

Brès, Camille Sophie  

École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne

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2025

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Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.

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2025 Conference on Lasers and Electro-Optics Europe and European Quantum Electronics Conference, CLEO/Europe-EQEC 2025
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9798331512521

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2025 Conference on Lasers and Electro-Optics Europe & European Quantum Electronics Conference

Munich, Germany

2025-06-23 - 2025-06-27

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September 29, 2025
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