Title :
Femtosecond index dynamics in silicon wire waveguides
Author :
Suda, Satoshi ; Ogasawara, Takeshi ; Shoji, Yuya ; Kintaka, Kenji ; Kawashima, Hitoshi ; Hasama, Toshifumi ; Ishikawa, Hiroshi
Author_Institution :
Nat. Inst. of Adv. Ind. Sci. & Technol., Ibaraki, Japan
Abstract :
We studied ultrafast optical dynamics in silicon wire waveguides operating at 1.55 mum by employing a heterodyne pump-probe method with 240-fs temporal resolution. From measurement results, nonlinear properties were determined.
Keywords :
elemental semiconductors; heterodyne detection; high-speed optical techniques; integrated optics; nonlinear optics; optical waveguides; refractive index; silicon; Si; femtosecond index dynamics; femtosecond temporal resolution; heterodyne pump-probe method; nonlinear properties; nonlinear refractive index; silicon wire waveguides; time 240 fs; ultrafast optical dynamics; wavelength 1.55 mum; Nonlinear optics; Optical mixing; Optical pulses; Optical pumping; Optical waveguides; Probes; Pulse amplifiers; Pulse modulation; Silicon; Wire;
Conference_Titel :
Group IV Photonics, 2009. GFP '09. 6th IEEE International Conference on
Conference_Location :
San Francisco, CA
Print_ISBN :
978-1-4244-4402-1
Electronic_ISBN :
1949-2081
DOI :
10.1109/GROUP4.2009.5338349
