Title :
Improved four-wave mixing with free-carrier removal in silicon coupled microring waveguides
Author :
Ong, Jun Rong ; Kumar, Ranjeet ; Xianshu Luo ; Lo Guo-Qiang ; Mookherjea, Shayan
Author_Institution :
University of California, San Diego, Mail Code 0407, La Jolla, 92093 USA
Abstract :
We improve CW wavelength conversion efficiency by 10 dB in an optical waveguide consisting of 51 directly-coupled silicon microrings, based on electronic free-carrier sweepout using two reverse-biased p-n junction diodes on each microring resonator.
Keywords :
Optical mixing; Optical pumping; Optical resonators; Optical waveguides; Optical wavelength conversion; Silicon;
Conference_Titel :
Lasers and Electro-Optics (CLEO), 2014 Conference on
Conference_Location :
San Jose, CA, USA
