• DocumentCode
    197334
  • Title

    Recent advancements of strained silicon as an optically nonlinear material

  • Author

    Puckett, Matthew W. ; Smalley, Joseph S. T. ; Abashin, Maxim ; Grieco, Alfredo ; Fainman, Yeshaiahu

  • Author_Institution
    Dept. of Electr. & Comput. Eng., Univ. of California, San Diego, La Jolla, CA, USA
  • fYear
    2014
  • fDate
    8-13 June 2014
  • Firstpage
    1
  • Lastpage
    2
  • Abstract
    We present several improvements to the understanding of strained silicon´s second-order optical nonlinearity. In addition to incorporating the material into electro-optic modulators and wave-mixers, we analyze the nature of the optical nonlinearity on the nanoscale.
  • Keywords
    electro-optical modulation; elemental semiconductors; nanophotonics; nonlinear optics; silicon; Si; electro-optic modulators; nanoscale; optically nonlinear material; second-order optical nonlinearity; strained silicon; wave-mixers; Frequency conversion; Nonlinear optics; Optical device fabrication; Optical resonators; Optical waveguides; Silicon;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • Conference_Titel
    Lasers and Electro-Optics (CLEO), 2014 Conference on
  • Conference_Location
    San Jose, CA
  • Type

    conf

  • Filename
    6990004