• DocumentCode
    732888
  • Title

    Pump-degenerate phase-sensitive amplification in amorphous Si waveguides

  • Author

    Hongcheng Sun ; Ke-Yao Wang ; Foster, Amy C.

  • Author_Institution
    Dept. of Electr. & Comput. Eng., Johns Hopkins Univ., Baltimore, MD, USA
  • fYear
    2015
  • fDate
    10-15 May 2015
  • Firstpage
    1
  • Lastpage
    2
  • Abstract
    We demonstrate phase-sensitive amplification in hydrogenated amorphous silicon waveguides based on pump-degenerate four-wave mixing at 90 MHz and 10 GHz. An 11.7 dB (6.6 dB) phase-sensitive extinction ratio is achieved at 90 MHz (10 GHz).
  • Keywords
    integrated optics; multiwave mixing; optical pumping; optical waveguides; silicon; amorphous Si waveguides; frequency 10 GHz; frequency 90 MHz; hydrogenated amorphous silicon waveguides; phase-sensitive extinction ratio; pump-degenerate four-wave mixing; pump-degenerate phase-sensitive amplification; Extinction ratio; Gain; Optical fiber amplifiers; Photonics;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • Conference_Titel
    Lasers and Electro-Optics (CLEO), 2015 Conference on
  • Conference_Location
    San Jose, CA
  • Type

    conf

  • Filename
    7183325