• DocumentCode
    688759
  • Title

    Modal phase-matching of second-order nonlinearities at silicon-oxy-nitride interfaces in multi-layer waveguides

  • Author

    Logan, Dylan F. ; Dow, A.B.A. ; Stepanov, Dmitrii ; Abolghasem, Payam ; Kherani, Nazir P. ; Helmy, Amr S.

  • Author_Institution
    Edward S. Rogers Dept. of Electr. & Comput. Eng., Univ. of Toronto, Toronto, ON, Canada
  • fYear
    2013
  • fDate
    9-14 June 2013
  • Firstpage
    1
  • Lastpage
    2
  • Abstract
    We establish multi-layer dielectric waveguides as a platform for exploiting interface second-order nonlinearities. We demonstrate phase-matched second-harmonic generation in a silicon-oxy-nitride waveguide with an external efficiency of ~6 ×10-4 %/W.
  • Keywords
    optical harmonic generation; optical multilayers; optical phase matching; optical waveguides; silicon compounds; SiOxNy; multilayer dielectric waveguides; phase-matched second-harmonic generation; second-order nonlinearities; silicon-oxy-nitride waveguide interfaces;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • Conference_Titel
    Lasers and Electro-Optics (CLEO), 2013 Conference on
  • Conference_Location
    San Jose, CA
  • Type

    conf

  • Filename
    6833134