Title :
Highly efficient broadly tunable four-wave mixing in AlGaAs nanowires
Author :
Dolgaleva, Ksenia ; Sarrafi, Peyman ; Kultavewuti, Pisek ; Aitchison, J.S. ; Li Qian ; Volatier, Maite ; Ares, Richard ; Aimez, Vincent
Author_Institution :
Dept. of Electr. & Comput. Eng., Univ. of Toronto, Toronto, ON, Canada
Abstract :
We report what we believe to be the first experimental demonstration of four-wave mixing in AlGaAs nanowires with the efficiency -38 dB and conversion range 100 nm.
Keywords :
III-V semiconductors; aluminium compounds; gallium arsenide; integrated optics; multiwave mixing; nanophotonics; nanowires; optical waveguides; semiconductor quantum wires; AlGaAs; AlGaAs nanowires; conversion efficiency; highly efficient broadly tunable four-wave mixing; ultracompact integrated optical waveguides; wavelength conversion; Nanowires; Optical mixing; Optical pumping; Optical signal processing; Optical waveguides; Optical wavelength conversion;
Conference_Titel :
Lasers and Electro-Optics (CLEO), 2013 Conference on
Conference_Location :
San Jose, CA
