• DocumentCode
    2472528
  • 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
  • fYear
    2009
  • fDate
    9-11 Sept. 2009
  • Firstpage
    98
  • Lastpage
    100
  • 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;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • Conference_Titel
    Group IV Photonics, 2009. GFP '09. 6th IEEE International Conference on
  • Conference_Location
    San Francisco, CA
  • ISSN
    1949-2081
  • Print_ISBN
    978-1-4244-4402-1
  • Electronic_ISBN
    1949-2081
  • Type

    conf

  • DOI
    10.1109/GROUP4.2009.5338349
  • Filename
    5338349