Toward mid-infrared nonlinear optics applications of silicon carbide microdisks engineered by lateral under-etching [Invited]

David Allioux; Ali Belarouci; Darren Hudson; Eric Magi; Milan Sinobad; Guillaume Beaudin; Adrien Michon; Neetesh Singh; Regis Orobtchouk; Christian Grillet

doi:doi:10.1364/PRJ.6.000B74

Photonics Research, 2018, 6 (5): 05000B74, Published Online: Jul. 6, 2018

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David Allioux ^1,*Ali Belarouci ^1,2Darren Hudson ³Eric Magi ³Milan Sinobad ^1,4Guillaume Beaudin ²Adrien Michon ⁵Neetesh Singh ³Regis Orobtchouk ¹Christian Grillet ^1,6

Author Affiliations

¹ Université de Lyon, Institut des Nanotechnologie de Lyon, 69131 Ecully, France

² Department of Electrical Engineering, Université de Sherbrooke, Sherbrooke, QC J1K 2R1, Canada

³ School of Physics, University of Sydney, Sydney, NSW 2006, Australia

⁴ RMIT School of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Melbourne, VIC 3000, Australia

⁵ Université Côte d’Azur, CNRS, CRHEA, France

⁶ e-mail: Christian.grillet@ec-lyon.fr

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David Allioux, Ali Belarouci, Darren Hudson, Eric Magi, Milan Sinobad, Guillaume Beaudin, Adrien Michon, Neetesh Singh, Regis Orobtchouk, Christian Grillet. Toward mid-infrared nonlinear optics applications of silicon carbide microdisks engineered by lateral under-etching [Invited][J]. Photonics Research, 2018, 6(5): 05000B74.

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