All-optical wavelength conversion based on four-wave mixing in silicon waveguides

Author

Shiming Gao ; Zhiqiang Li ; Yanqiao Xie ; Qiang Liu ; Xingzhi Zhang ; Yaocheng Shi ; Sailing He ; En-Kuang Tien ; Boyraz, O.

Author_Institution

Centre for Opt. Electromagn. Res., Zhejiang Univ., Hangzhou, China

fYear

2010

fDate

24-27 Oct. 2010

Firstpage

195

Lastpage

200

Abstract

All-optical wavelength conversion is investigated using four wave mixing in silicon waveguides. The influences of nonlinear losses caused by two-photon absorption (TPA) and TPA-induced free-carrier absorption on the conversion efficiency and phase-matching condition are analyzed. The conversion bandwidth is tempted to enhance by optimizing the waveguide geometry and using the two-pump regime. And finally an angled-polarization pump is used to realize the polarization-independent wavelength conversion by eliminating the polarization discrepancy between the TE and TM modes.

Keywords

light absorption; light polarisation; multiwave mixing; optical losses; optical pumping; optical waveguides; optical wavelength conversion; silicon; TE modes; TM modes; TPA-induced free-carrier absorption; all-optical wavelength conversion; angled-polarization pump; conversion bandwidth; conversion efficiency; four-wave mixing; nonlinear losses; phase-matching condition; polarization discrepancy; polarization-independent wavelength conversion; silicon waveguides; two-photon absorption; two-pump regime; waveguide geometry; Wavelength conversion; four-wave mixing; silicon waveguide;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

iet

Conference_Titel

Optical Communications and Networks (ICOCN 2010), 9th International Conference on

Conference_Location

Nanjing

Type

conf

DOI

10.1049/cp.2010.1183

Filename

5778445