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Wavelength Conversion Based on Raman- and Non-Resonant Four-Wave Mixing in Silicon Nanowire Rings Without Dispersion Engineering
| Publication date | 2011 |
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| B-Phot Authors | Nathalie Vermeulen , Yannick Lefevre , Hugo Thienpont |
| DOI | 10.1109/JSTQE.2010.2086437 |
| Citation | N. Vermeulen, J. E. Sipe, Y. Lefevre, C. Debaes, and H. Thienpont, “Wavelength Conversion Based on Raman- and Non-Resonant Four-Wave Mixing in Silicon Nanowire Rings Without Dispersion Engineering,” IEEE J. Sel. Top. Quantum Electron, vol. 17, no. 4, pp. 1078–1091, 2011. |
| Abstract | We propose an efficient wavelength conversion scheme that is based on either Raman-resonant four-wave mixing or non-resonant Kerr-induced four-wave mixing in a silicon nanowire ring, and that does not require dispersion engineering of the nanowire. We rely on the spatial variation of the Raman and Kerr susceptibilities around the ring to quasi-phase match the wavelength conversion processes for TE polarized fields. The flexibility of this quasi-phase-matching scheme can lead to wavelength conversion efficiencies from -26.7 dB to values larger than 0 dB, and in certain circumstances makes it possible to outperform conventional phase-matched conversion in a dispersion-engineered silicon ring by factors exceeding 6 dB. |
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