Advanced progress on χ (3) nonlinearity in chip-scale photonic platforms

Z Kang, C Mei, L Zhang, Z Zhang… - Progress In …, 2021 - nrl.northumbria.ac.uk
χ (3) nonlinearity enables ultrafast femtosecond scale light-to-light coupling and
manipulation of intensity, phase, and frequency. χ (3) nonlinear functionality in micro-and …

Nonlinear sculpturing of optical pulses with normally dispersive fiber-based devices

C Finot, I Gukov, K Hammani, S Boscolo - Optical Fiber Technology, 2018 - Elsevier
We present a general method to determine the parameters of nonlinear pulse shaping
systems based on pulse propagation in a normally dispersive fiber that are required to …

Pulse compression in adiabatically tapered silicon photonic wires

S Lavdas, JB Driscoll, RR Grote, RM Osgood Jr… - Optics …, 2014 - opg.optica.org
We present a comprehensive analysis of pulse compression in adiabatically tapered silicon
photonic wire waveguides (Si-PhWWGs), both at telecom (λ∼ 1.55 μm) and mid-IR (λ≳ 2.1 …

Waveguide tapering for improved parametric amplification in integrated nonlinear Si3N4 waveguides

P Zhao, Z Ye, K Vijayan, C Naveau, J Schröder… - Optics …, 2020 - opg.optica.org
In this paper, we propose and numerically investigate waveguide tapering to improve optical
parametric amplification in integrated nonlinear Si_3N_4 circuits. The phase matching …

Temperature Dependence of Nonlinear Pulse Reshaping towards Parabolic Shape for A Silicon Core Single Mode Optical Fiber

BK Ghosh, D Ghosh, M Basu - IEEE Journal of Quantum …, 2023 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Normal dispersion highly nonlinear silicon core fibers (NDHNSCF) are designed and
optimized within the single mode regime with the goal of generating stable parabolic pulses …

Wavelength conversion and parametric amplification of optical pulses via quasi-phase-matched four-wave mixing in long-period Bragg silicon waveguides

S Lavdas, S Zhao, JB Driscoll, RR Grote, RM Osgood… - Optics letters, 2014 - opg.optica.org
We present a theoretical analysis supported by comprehensive numerical simulations of
quasi-phase-matched four-wave mixing (FWM) of ultrashort optical pulses that propagate in …

Self-similar propagation and compression of the parabolic pulse in silicon waveguide

C Mei, K Wang, J Yuan, Z Kang, X Zhang… - Journal of Lightwave …, 2019 - opg.optica.org
In this paper, the conditions of the self-similar propagation of the parabolic pulse (PP) in
passive nonlinear tapers are derived and classified into the three cases. Analytical solutions …

Efficient and broadband parametric wavelength conversion in a vertically etched silicon grating without dispersion engineering

B Jin, J Yuan, C Yu, X Sang, S Wei, X Zhang, Q Wu… - Optics …, 2014 - opg.optica.org
An efficient and broadband parametric wavelength converter is proposed in the silicon-on-
insulator (SOI) waveguide without dispersion engineering. The vertical grating is utilized to …

A tapered chalcogenide microstructured optical fiber for mid-IR parabolic pulse generation: design and performance study

A Barh, S Ghosh, RK Varshney… - IEEE Journal of Selected …, 2014 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
This paper presents a theoretical design of chalcogenide glass based tapered
microstructured optical fiber (MOF) to generate high power parabolic pulses (PPs) at the mid …

Comprehensive analysis of passive generation of parabolic similaritons in tapered hydrogenated amorphous silicon photonic wires

C Mei, F Li, J Yuan, Z Kang, X Zhang, B Yan, X Sang… - Scientific reports, 2017 - nature.com
Parabolic pulses have important applications in both basic and applied sciences, such as
high power optical amplification, optical communications, all-optical signal processing, etc …