Title :
Ultrafast integrated optics in silicon-polymer waveguides
Abstract :
Nonlinear optical polymers provide a unique and powerful platform for constructing a wide variety of useful optical devices. Historically such polymers have been used in low index contrast, all-organic waveguiding systems, which have a number of significant limitations. With recent progress in silicon photonics, it is now possible to build low-loss, ultra-high confinement optical waveguides within the silicon system. These guides provide high overlap with organic claddings, allowing the creation of a hybrid material platform for nonlinear optics.
Keywords :
elemental semiconductors; high-speed optical techniques; integrated optics; nonlinear optics; optical polymers; optical waveguides; silicon; Si; all-organic waveguiding systems; nonlinear optical polymers; nonlinear optics; optical waveguides; organic claddings; silicon photonics; silicon-polymer waveguides; ultrafast integrated optics; Integrated optics; Nonlinear optical devices; Nonlinear optics; Optical devices; Optical materials; Optical polymers; Optical waveguides; Photonics; Silicon; Ultrafast optics;
Conference_Titel :
IEEE Lasers and Electro-Optics Society, 2008. LEOS 2008. 21st Annual Meeting of the
Conference_Location :
Acapulco
Print_ISBN :
978-1-4244-1931-9
Electronic_ISBN :
978-1-4244-1932-6
DOI :
10.1109/LEOS.2008.4688885
