A porous silicon Bragg grating waveguide by direct laser writing

We have designed, fabricated and characterized a porous silicon-based Bragg grating integrated in an optical waveguide, by using a low cost and fast technique, direct laser writing. A periodic optical structure with a pitch of 10 mu m, resonant in the near-infrared wavelength region, has been obtained. The simulated transmission spectra, calculated by the transfer matrix method and waveguide modal computation, are in good qualitative agreement with the experimental ones. The waveguide transmission losses have been quantified as 22 dB cm(-1)