• DocumentCode
    1956412
  • Title

    Second-order susceptibility χ(2) in Si waveguides

  • Author

    Bianco, F. ; Borga, E. ; Yeremian, A. ; Dierre, B. ; Fedus, K. ; Bettotti, P. ; Pitanti, A. ; Pierobon, R. ; Ghulinyan, M. ; Pucker, G. ; Cazzanelli, M. ; Pavesi, L.

  • Author_Institution
    Dipt. di Fis., Univ. di Trento, Povo, Italy
  • fYear
    2011
  • fDate
    14-16 Sept. 2011
  • Firstpage
    27
  • Lastpage
    29
  • Abstract
    Tensile strained-silicon waveguides were produced by LPCVD (780°C) by depositing a 150 nm-thick Si3N4 overlayer. Nonlinear nanosecond and femtosecond transmission experiments indicated the presence of a significant χ(2) in the bulk silicon.
  • Keywords
    CVD coatings; nonlinear optical susceptibility; optical waveguides; silicon; silicon compounds; LPCVD; Si; Si3N4; nonlinear femtosecond transmission; nonlinear nanosecond transmission; second order susceptibility; tensile strained silicon waveguide; Nonlinear optics; Optical harmonic generation; Optical pumping; Optical waveguides; Silicon; Ultrafast optics;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • Conference_Titel
    Group IV Photonics (GFP), 2011 8th IEEE International Conference on
  • Conference_Location
    London
  • ISSN
    1949-2081
  • Print_ISBN
    978-1-4244-8338-9
  • Type

    conf

  • DOI
    10.1109/GROUP4.2011.6053704
  • Filename
    6053704