Study of Silicon Nitride Waveguide-Based Ultra-Wideband On-Chip Light Source for OCT Applications
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1.Xi'2.'3.an Key Laboratory of Microwave Photonics and Optical Communication, Xi’an University of Posts and Telecommunications;4.School of Electronic Engineering, Xi’an University of Posts and Telecommunications

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TN252

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Supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (61875165); the Key Research and Development Program Projects of Shaanxi Province (2022GY-008); the Natural Science Basic Research Program of Shaanxi (2022JQ-638); the Shaanxi Provincial Innovation Capability Support Program Project (2022PT-15), and the Collaborative Innovation Projects of Education Office of Shaanxi Province (20JY060)

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    Abstract:

    Optical coherence tomography (OCT) technology has the advantages of non-invasive, high-resolution, and real-time imaging, which is widely used in various fields such as biomedicine, material science and infrared sensing. In this paper, a ridge suspended optical waveguide based on silicon nitride (Si3N4) is proposed. The structural parameters of the designed waveguide were optimized by using finite difference time domain (FDTD) method. The characteristics of the supercontinuum spectrum generated in the optimized waveguide were investigated The simulation results show that for the optimized optical waveguide structure with ridge width of 750nm, ridge height of 700nm, plate thickness of 200nm, and upper layer height of 150nm, when a pump light with wavelength of 1.3μm, peak power of 2kW and pulse width of 50fs was injected into the waveguide, a broadband supercontinuum spectrum with wavelength covering the visible to the mid-infrared region (703~4014nm) can be generated. This work plays an important role in promoting the application of on-chip integrated broadband light source in biomedical imaging and related fields.

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  • Received:December 25,2023
  • Revised:January 25,2024
  • Adopted:February 22,2024
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