Abstract
We show that by incorporating a Ge stripe with a photonic crystal waveguide operated at a slow-light mode, the absorption coefficient can be enhanced to ~ 0.8 dB/µm at 1600 nm wavelength, which is about 1 order of magnitude improvement compared to bulk Ge.
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