• DocumentCode
    1958925
  • Title

    Widely tunable silicon mid-infrared optical parametric oscillator

  • Author

    Kuyken, Bart ; Liu, Xiaoping ; Osgood, Richard M., Jr. ; Baets, Roel ; Roelkens, Günther ; Green, William M J

  • Author_Institution
    Dept. of Inf. Technol., Ghent Univ., Ghent, Belgium
  • fYear
    2011
  • fDate
    14-16 Sept. 2011
  • Firstpage
    338
  • Lastpage
    340
  • Abstract
    A synchronously-pumped mid-infrared optical parametric oscillator is demonstrated using unprecedented large parametric gain in silicon photonic wires. The output wavelength is tunable over a 75-nm bandwidth, with a maximum output pulse energy of 1.62 pJ.
  • Keywords
    elemental semiconductors; integrated optics; nanophotonics; optical parametric oscillators; optical pumping; optical tuning; optical waveguides; silicon; Si; energy 1.62 pJ; large parametric gain; silicon photonic wire; synchronously pumped midinfrared optical parametric oscillator; widely tunable silicon midinfrared optical parametric oscillator; Gain; Nonlinear optics; Optical waveguides; Oscillators; Photonics; Silicon; Wires;
  • 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/GROUP4.2011.6053809
  • Filename
    6053809