• DocumentCode
    3652641
  • Title

    Optimum micro-optical parametric oscillators based on third-order nonlinearity

  • Author

    Xiaoge Zeng;Milos A. Popović

  • Author_Institution
    Dept. of Electr., Univ. of Colorado Boulder, Boulder, CO, USA
  • fYear
    2013
  • fDate
    6/1/2013 12:00:00 AM
  • Firstpage
    1
  • Lastpage
    2
  • Abstract
    We show that optimum designs of optical parametric oscillators require different pump and signal/idler coupling, suggesting novel microphotonic geometries. Normalized models with linear/nonlinear loss show that Si can oscillate at 1550nm below certain free-carrier-to-cavity-photon-lifetime ratios.
  • Keywords
    "Couplings","Silicon","Oscillators","Optical resonators","Nonlinear optics","Cavity resonators","Charge carrier lifetime"
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • Conference_Titel
    Lasers and Electro-Optics (CLEO), 2013 Conference on
  • ISSN
    2160-8989
  • Type

    conf

  • Filename
    6833322