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Chin. Phys. B, 2026, Vol. 35(8): 084207    DOI: 10.1088/1674-1056/ae156d
ELECTROMAGNETISM, OPTICS, ACOUSTICS, HEAT TRANSFER, CLASSICAL MECHANICS, AND FLUID DYNAMICS Prev   Next  

Proton-implanted CeO2/Sb2O3-co-doped phosphate glass waveguides and its annealing evolution

Chun-Xiao Liu(刘春晓)1,†, Shi-Yu Chen(陈诗语)1, Jia-Pei Wu(吴佳佩)1, Quan-Long He(贺全龙)2, Jian-Fei Guan(关建飞)1, Liao-Lin Zhang(张料林)3, and Hai-Tao Guo(郭海涛)4
1 College of Electronic and Optical Engineering, Nanjing University of Post and Telecommunications, Nanjing 210023, China;
2 Logging Technology Research Institute, China National Logging Corporation, Xi'an 710077, China;
3 School of Material Science and Engineering, Jiangxi University of Science and Technology, Ganzhou 341000, China;
4 State Key Laboratory of Transient Optics and Photonics, Xi'an Institute of Optics and Precision Mechanics, Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS), Xi'an 710119, China
Abstract  Proton implantation has received increasing attention in the field of optical waveguide fabrication. It is meaningful to explore the annealing effects on the guiding properties of the proton-implanted waveguides. In this work, the CeO$_{2}$/Sb$_{2}$O$_{3}$-co-doped phosphate glass waveguides were formed by 400-keV proton implantation, and the proton fluence was chosen to be 8$\times10^{16}$ ions/cm$^{2}$. The implanted glass was annealed in a series of 60-min thermal treatments at temperatures ranging from 260 $^\circ$C to 360 $^\circ$C. After each annealing treatment, the modes and their effective refractive indices were measured at 632.8 nm by a prism coupling system. The near-field intensity distribution of the zeroth-order mode was recorded by using an end-face coupling method. The mechanism of the planar waveguide formation is discussed by simulating the energy loss distribution and calculating the refractive index profile. It can enhance theoretical and experimental references for the development of integrated photonic devices by implantation and annealing.
Keywords:  optical waveguide      proton implantation      CeO$_{2}$/Sb$_{2}$O$_{3}$-co-doped phosphate glass      thermal treatment  
Received:  15 September 2025      Revised:  20 October 2025      Accepted manuscript online:  21 October 2025
PACS:  42.79.Gn (Optical waveguides and couplers)  
  61.80.Jh (Ion radiation effects)  
Fund: Project supported by the Postgraduate Research and Innovation Program of Jiangsu Province, China (Grant No KYCX25 1134), the National Natural Science Foundation of China (Grant No. 11405041), the Key Research and Development Program of Jiangxi Province, China (Grant No. 20223BBE51020), and the Opening Fund of Key Laboratory of Rare Earths (Chinese Academy of Sciences).
Corresponding Authors:  Chun-Xiao Liu     E-mail:  chunxiaoliu@njupt.edu.cn

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Chun-Xiao Liu(刘春晓), Shi-Yu Chen(陈诗语), Jia-Pei Wu(吴佳佩), Quan-Long He(贺全龙), Jian-Fei Guan(关建飞), Liao-Lin Zhang(张料林), and Hai-Tao Guo(郭海涛) Proton-implanted CeO2/Sb2O3-co-doped phosphate glass waveguides and its annealing evolution 2026 Chin. Phys. B 35 084207

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