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
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