Continuous-wave mid-infrared frequency conversion in silicon nanowaveguides

RKW Lau, M Ménard, Y Okawachi, MA Foster… - Optics Letters, 2011 - opg.optica.org
We report the first demonstration of cw wavelength conversion from the telecommunications
band to the mid-IR (MIR) region via four-wave mixing in silicon nanowaveguides. We …

Frequency conversion over two-thirds of an octave in silicon nanowaveguides

AC Turner-Foster, MA Foster, R Salem, AL Gaeta… - Optics express, 2010 - opg.optica.org
We demonstrate ultrabroad-bandwidth low-power frequency conversion of continuous-wave
light in a dispersion engineered silicon nanowaveguide via four-wave mixing. Our process …

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 …

Mid-infrared wavelength conversion in silicon waveguides using ultracompact telecom-band-derived pump source

S Zlatanovic, JS Park, S Moro, JMC Boggio… - Nature …, 2010 - nature.com
Mid-infrared light sources are essential for applications that include free-space
communication, chemical and biomolecular sensing and infrared spectroscopy,,, but no …

C-band wavelength conversion in silicon photonic wire waveguides

RL Espinola, JI Dadap, RM Osgood Jr, SJ McNab… - Optics express, 2005 - opg.optica.org
We demonstrate C-band wavelength conversion in Si photonic-wire waveguides with
submicron cross-section by means of nonresonant, nondegenerate four-wave mixing (FWM) …

Width-modulation of Si photonic wires for quasi-phase-matching of four-wave-mixing: experimental and theoretical demonstration

JB Driscoll, N Ophir, RR Grote, JI Dadap, NC Panoiu… - Optics express, 2012 - opg.optica.org
We experimentally demonstrate quasi-phase-matched (QPM) four-wave-mixing (FWM) in
silicon (Si) nanowire waveguides with sinusoidally modulated width. We perform discrete …

Tunable mid-infrared generation via wide-band four-wave mixing in silicon nitride waveguides

AS Kowligy, DD Hickstein, A Lind, DR Carlson… - Optics Letters, 2018 - opg.optica.org
We demonstrate wide-band frequency down-conversion to the mid-infrared (MIR) using four-
wave mixing (FWM) of near-infrared (NIR) femtosecond-duration pulses from an Er: fiber …

First demonstration of a 10-Gb/s RZ end-to-end four-wave-mixing based link at 1884 nm using silicon nanowaveguides

N Ophir, RKW Lau, M Ménard, R Salem… - IEEE Photonics …, 2011 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
We demonstrate a double-stage four-wave mixing (FWM) scheme in silicon
nanowaveguides which allows effective optical time-division-multiplexed data generation …

Demonstration of broadband wavelength conversion at 40 Gb/s in silicon waveguides

BG Lee, A Biberman, AC Turner-Foster… - IEEE Photonics …, 2008 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
We present ultra-broadband wavelength conversion in silicon photonic waveguides at a
data rate of 40 Gb/s. The dispersion-engineered device demonstrates a conversion …

Efficient and low-noise single-photon-level frequency conversion interfaces using silicon nanophotonics

Q Li, M Davanço, K Srinivasan - Nature Photonics, 2016 - nature.com
Optical frequency conversion has applications ranging from tunable light sources to
telecommunications-band interfaces for quantum information science. Here, we demonstrate …