• DocumentCode
    3203610
  • Title

    Four-wave mixing in hydrogenated amorphous silicon waveguides at 1.55 µm

  • Author

    Suda, Satoshi ; Tanizawa, Ken ; Kamei, Toshihiko ; Sakakibara, Youichi ; Shoji, Yuya ; Kintaka, Kenji ; Kawashima, Hitoshi ; Mori, Masahiko ; Hasama, Toshifumi ; Ishikawa, Hiroshi ; Namiki, Shu

  • Author_Institution
    Network Photonics Res. Center, Nat. Inst. of Adv. Ind. Sci. & Technol., Tsukuba, Japan
  • fYear
    2010
  • fDate
    1-3 Sept. 2010
  • Firstpage
    168
  • Lastpage
    170
  • Abstract
    We report the observation of four-wave mixing in hydrogenated-amorphous-silicon waveguides. The maximum conversion efficiency is -19 dB for 4.0-mm-long hydrogenated-amorphous-silicon waveguide and 10-GHz repetition pump. The operation bandwidth is estimated to be over 60 nm.
  • Keywords
    amorphous semiconductors; elemental semiconductors; multiwave mixing; optical waveguides; optical wavelength conversion; silicon; Si; four-wave mixing; hydrogenated amorphous silicon waveguides; maximum conversion efficiency; size 4.0 mm; wavelength 1.55 mum; Fiber nonlinear optics; Optical fibers; Optical mixing; Probes;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • Conference_Titel
    Group IV Photonics (GFP), 2010 7th IEEE International Conference on
  • Conference_Location
    Beijing
  • Print_ISBN
    978-1-4244-6344-2
  • Type

    conf

  • DOI
    10.1109/GROUP4.2010.5643390
  • Filename
    5643390