Nanophotonics (Mar 2017)
Nonlinear optical interactions in silicon waveguides
- Kuyken B.,
- Leo F.,
- Clemmen S.,
- Dave U.,
- Van Laer R.,
- Ideguchi T.,
- Zhao H.,
- Liu X.,
- Safioui J.,
- Coen S.,
- Gorza S.P.,
- Selvaraja S. K.,
- Massar S.,
- Osgood R. M.,
- Verheyen P.,
- Van Campenhout J.,
- Baets R.,
- Green W.M. J.,
- Roelkens G.
Affiliations
- Kuyken B.
- Photonics Research Group, Department of Information Technology, Ghent University–imec, Ghent, Belgium
- Leo F.
- Photonics Research Group, Department of Information Technology, Ghent University–imec, Ghent, Belgium
- Clemmen S.
- Photonics Research Group, Department of Information Technology, Ghent University–imec, Ghent, Belgium
- Dave U.
- Photonics Research Group, Department of Information Technology, Ghent University–imec, Ghent, Belgium
- Van Laer R.
- Photonics Research Group, Department of Information Technology, Ghent University–imec, Ghent, Belgium
- Ideguchi T.
- Research Centre for Spectrochemistry, University of Tokyo, Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan
- Zhao H.
- Photonics Research Group, Department of Information Technology, Ghent University–imec, Ghent, Belgium
- Liu X.
- Department of Optical Engineering and Quantum Electronics, College of Engineering and Applied Sciences, Nanjing Univ., Nanjing, 22 Hankou Rd Nanjing, Jiangsu PRC 210093, China
- Safioui J.
- Institut FEMTO-ST, Département d’Optique P. M. Dufleux, Université de Franche-Comté, Besançon, France
- Coen S.
- Physics Department, The University of Auckland, Auckland, New Zealand
- Gorza S.P.
- OPERA-Photonique, Université Libre de Bruxelles (ULB), 50 Av. F. D. Roosevelt, CP 194/5, B-1050 Bruxelles, Belgium
- Selvaraja S. K.
- Centre for Nano Science and Engineering, Bengaluru, Indian Institute of Science, India
- Massar S.
- Laboratoire d’Information Quantique (LIQ) CP 224, Université libre de Bruxelles (U. L. B.), Bruxelles, Belgium
- Osgood R. M.
- Microelectronics Sciences Laboratories, Columbia University, New York, NY 10027, USA
- Verheyen P.
- imec, Kapeldreef 75, Leuven, Belgium
- Van Campenhout J.
- imec, Kapeldreef 75, Leuven, Belgium
- Baets R.
- Photonics Research Group, Department of Information Technology, Ghent University–imec, Ghent, Belgium
- Green W.M. J.
- IBM T. J. Watson Research Center, 1101 Kitchawan Road, Yorktown Heights, NY 10598, USA
- Roelkens G.
- Photonics Research Group, Department of Information Technology, Ghent University–imec, Ghent, Belgium
- DOI
- https://doi.org/10.1515/nanoph-2016-0001
- Journal volume & issue
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Vol. 6,
no. 2
pp. 377 – 392
Abstract
The strong nonlinear response of silicon photonic nanowire waveguides allows for the integration of nonlinear optical functions on a chip. However, the detrimental nonlinear optical absorption in silicon at telecom wavelengths limits the efficiency of many such experiments. In this review, several approaches are proposed and demonstrated to overcome this fundamental issue. By using the proposed methods, we demonstrate amongst others supercontinuum generation, frequency comb generation, a parametric optical amplifier, and a parametric optical oscillator.
