Nonlinear optical phenomena in silicon waveguides: modeling and applications

Q Lin, OJ Painter, GP Agrawal - Optics express, 2007 - opg.optica.org
Focus Serial: Frontiers of Nonlinear Optics Several kinds of nonlinear optical effects have
been observed in recent years using silicon waveguides, and their device applications are …

Nonlinear Group IV photonics based on silicon and germanium: from near-infrared to mid-infrared

L Zhang, AM Agarwal, LC Kimerling, J Michel - Nanophotonics, 2014 - degruyter.com
Group IV photonics hold great potential for nonlinear applications in the near-and mid-
infrared (IR) wavelength ranges, exhibiting strong nonlinearities in bulk materials, high index …

Impact of two-photon absorption on self-phase modulation in silicon waveguides

L Yin, GP Agrawal - Optics letters, 2007 - opg.optica.org
We study the effects of two-photon absorption on the self-phase modulation (SPM) process
in silicon waveguides while including both free-carrier absorption and free-carrier …

Nonlinear silicon-on-insulator waveguides for all-optical signal processing

C Koos, L Jacome, C Poulton, J Leuthold, W Freude - Optics Express, 2007 - opg.optica.org
Values up to γ= 7× 10^ 6/(Wkm) for the nonlinear parameter are feasible if silicon-on-
insulator based strip and slot waveguides are properly designed. This is more than three …

Tailored anomalous group-velocity dispersion in silicon channel waveguides

AC Turner, C Manolatou, BS Schmidt, M Lipson… - Optics express, 2006 - opg.optica.org
We present the first experimental demonstration of anomalous group-velocity dispersion
(GVD) in silicon waveguides across the telecommunication bands. We show that the GVD in …

Broad-band continuous-wave parametric wavelength conversion in silicon nanowaveguides

MA Foster, AC Turner, R Salem, M Lipson… - Optics Express, 2007 - opg.optica.org
We demonstrate highly broad-band frequency conversion via four-wave mixing in silicon
nanowaveguides. Through appropriate engineering of the waveguide dimensions …

Low-threshold continuous-wave Raman silicon laser

H Rong, S Xu, YH Kuo, V Sih, O Cohen, O Raday… - Nature …, 2007 - nature.com
We report the first demonstration of a low-threshold continuous-wave (cw) Raman silicon
laser based on a ring-resonator-cavity configuration. We achieved a lasing threshold of 20 …

A full vectorial model for pulse propagation in emerging waveguides with subwavelength structures part i: Kerr nonlinearity

S Afshar V, TM Monro - Optics express, 2009 - opg.optica.org
The propagation of pulses through waveguides with sub-wavelength features,
inhomogeneous transverse structure, and high index contrast cannot be described …

Four-wave mixing of topological edge plasmons in graphene metasurfaces

JW You, Z Lan, NC Panoiu - Science advances, 2020 - science.org
We study topologically protected four-wave mixing (FWM) interactions in a plasmonic
metasurface consisting of a periodic array of nanoholes in a graphene sheet, which exhibits …

Group index and group velocity dispersion in silicon-on-insulator photonic wires

E Dulkeith, F Xia, L Schares, WMJ Green… - Optics express, 2006 - opg.optica.org
We determine group index and group velocity dispersion (GVD) of SOI single-mode strip
waveguides (photonic wires) with 525x226nm cross-section over the entire …