A review on pedestal waveguides for low loss optical guiding, optical amplifiers and nonlinear optics applications

DO Carvalho, LRP Kassab, VD Del Cacho… - Journal of …, 2018 - Elsevier
In this work we review the recent advances and demonstrate possible future perspectives
regarding pedestal waveguide fabrication technology. The optical waveguides produced …

Parametric nonlinear silicon-based photonics

K Li, AC Foster - Proceedings of the IEEE, 2018 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Integrated silicon photonics is revolutionizing the field of optical communications as hybrid
photonic/electronic integrated circuits made from this semiconductor material can …

Low-loss pedestal Ta2O5 nonlinear optical waveguides

JH Sierra, RC Rangel, RE Samad, ND Vieira… - Optics …, 2019 - opg.optica.org
In this work, we investigate a pedestal tantalum oxide (Ta_2O_5) material platform for
integrated nonlinear optics (NLO). In order to achieve low propagation losses with this …

Parallel and WDM silicon photonics integration in information and communications technology systems

Q Xu, R Brunner, S Lessard - US Patent 9,261,754, 2016 - Google Patents
(57) ABSTRACT A wavelength converter includes first silicon waveguides and second
silicon waveguides intersecting the first silicon waveguides to form an arrayed waveguide …

All-optical wavelength conversion and multicasting for polarization-multiplexed signal using angled pumps in a silicon waveguide

Y Xie, S Gao, S He - Optics letters, 2012 - opg.optica.org
We report all-optical wavelength conversion and multicasting for a 20 Gb/s (2× 10 Gb/s)
polarization-multiplexed (Pol-MUX) nonreturn-to-zero amplitude-shift keying signal using …

All-optical wavelength conversion based on time-domain holography

MR Fernández-Ruiz, L Lei, M Rochette, J Azaña - Optics Express, 2015 - opg.optica.org
All-optical wavelength conversion of a complex (amplitude and phase) optical signal is
proposed based on an all-optical implementation of time-domain holography. The temporal …

Multichannel wavelength conversion of 50-Gbit/s NRZ-DQPSK signals using a quantum-dot semiconductor optical amplifier

M Matsuura, N Calabretta, O Raz, HJS Dorren - Optics Express, 2011 - opg.optica.org
We demonstrate simultaneous four-channel wavelength conversion of 50-Gbit/s non-return-
to-zero differential quadrature-shift-keying signals with a channel spacing of 100-GHz using …

Progress on Waveguide‐Integrated Graphene Optoelectronics

J Wang, Z Cheng, X Li - Advances in Condensed Matter …, 2018 - Wiley Online Library
Graphene, a single layer of carbon atoms arranged in the form of hexagonal lattice, has
many intriguing optical and electrical properties. However, due to the atomic layer thickness …

Highly sensitive ultrafast pulse characterization using hydrogenated amorphous silicon waveguides

KG Petrillo, KY Wang, AC Foster, MA Foster - Optics express, 2013 - opg.optica.org
We experimentally demonstrate frequency resolved optical gating (FROG) via four-wave
mixing (FWM) in ultrahigh nonlinearity hydrogenated amorphous silicon waveguides. We …

Analysis and measurement of the non-linear refractive index of SiOx Ny using pedestal waveguides

JH Sierra, DO Carvalho, RE Samad… - … 34th Symposium on …, 2019 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
In this work, the non-linear refractive index (n 2) of silicon oxynitride (SiO x N y) is
determined, obtaining a value for this material of n 2= 2.11× 10-19 m 2/W. The results …