Slow-light enhanced nonlinearities in photonic crystals and their application to optical signal processing and quantum integrated optics

Author

Monat, Christelle ; Corcoran, B. ; Xiong, Chuan ; Collins, Matthew J. ; Pelusi, Mark ; Clark, Alex S. ; Grillet, C. ; Li, Jie ; O´Faolain, Liam ; Krauss, Thomas F. ; Marshall, Geoffrey ; Steel, Michael J. ; Moss, D. ; Eggleton, Benjamin J.

Author_Institution

Inst. des Nanotechnol. de Lyon (INL), Univ. de Lyon, Ecully, France

fYear

2012

fDate

2-6 July 2012

Firstpage

885

Lastpage

886

Abstract

We show how slow-light enhanced four-wave mixing in dispersion engineered photonic crystal waveguides can result in ultra-compact devices enabling different applications, namely time-division demultiplexing of 160Gbaud data streams and the generation of correlated photon pairs.

Keywords

integrated optics; multiwave mixing; optical waveguides; photonic crystals; slow light; time division multiplexing; dispersion engineered photonic crystal waveguides; enhanced nonlinearities; four wave mixing; optical signal processing; photon pairs; photonic crystals; quantum integrated optics; slow light; time division demultiplexing; Optical signal processing; Optical waveguides; Optimized production technology; Photonic crystals; Photonics; Silicon; Slow light;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Opto-Electronics and Communications Conference (OECC), 2012 17th

Conference_Location

Busan

ISSN

2166-8884

Print_ISBN

978-1-4673-0976-9

Electronic_ISBN

2166-8884

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/OECC.2012.6276679

Filename

6276679