• DocumentCode
    1666909
  • Title

    First demonstration of quasi-phase-matched four-wave-mixing in silicon waveguides

  • Author

    Driscoll, Jeffrey B. ; Ophir, Noam ; Grote, Richard R. ; Dadap, Jerry I. ; Panoiu, Nicolae C. ; Bergman, Keren ; Osgood, Richard M., Jr.

  • Author_Institution
    Microelectron. Sci. Labs., Columbia Univ., New York, NY, USA
  • fYear
    2012
  • Firstpage
    1
  • Lastpage
    2
  • Abstract
    We demonstrate quasi-phase-matched four-wave-mixing in silicon nanowires with sinusoidally modulated width. We observe ~11 dB conversion efficiency enhancement for targeted wavelengths >;100 nm away from the edge of the 3-dB conversion bandwidth.
  • Keywords
    elemental semiconductors; multiwave mixing; nanowires; optical phase matching; optical waveguides; silicon; Si; conversion efficiency enhancement; nanowires; quasi-phase-matched four-wave-mixing; silicon waveguides; wavelength 100 nm; Dispersion; Nanowires; Nonlinear optics; Optical fibers; Optical wavelength conversion; Silicon;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • Conference_Titel
    Lasers and Electro-Optics (CLEO), 2012 Conference on
  • Conference_Location
    San Jose, CA
  • Print_ISBN
    978-1-4673-1839-6
  • Type

    conf

  • Filename
    6326153