Tellurite glass microcavity resonators integrated on a silicon photonics platform

We report on the design and measurement of tellurium oxide microcavity resonators coupled to silicon bus waveguides on silicon photonic chips. The resonators are fabricated using a standard silicon photonics foundry processing flow in which the SiO2 top-cladding is etched in a ring shape and aligned next to a silicon bus waveguide. The resulting microtrench is coated in a tellurium oxide film by reactive sputtering in a post-processing step to …