• DocumentCode
    2156859
  • Title

    Four-wave-mixing gain and all-optical signal processing in silicon nanowires

  • Author

    Kuyken, Bart ; Liu, Xiaoping ; Clemmen, Stéphane ; Selvaraja, Shankar Kumar ; Bogaerts, Wim ; Van Thourhout, Dries ; Osgood, Richard M., Jr. ; Emplit, Philippe ; Massar, Serge ; Vlasov, Yurii A. ; Green, William M J ; Roelkens, Günther ; Baets, Roel

  • Author_Institution
    Dept. of Inf. Technol., Ghent Univ., Ghent, Belgium
  • fYear
    2011
  • fDate
    18-22 Sept. 2011
  • Firstpage
    1
  • Lastpage
    3
  • Abstract
    Silicon nanowires have an immense potential for nonlinear optical functions. Recent work on four-wave-mixing gain in hydrogenated amorphous silicon wires at telecom wavelengths and in crystalline silicon wires in the 2μm wavelength range is reviewed.
  • Keywords
    multiwave mixing; nanowires; nonlinear optics; all-optical signal processing; crystalline silicon wires; four-wave-mixing gain; hydrogenated amorphous silicon wires; nonlinear optical functions; silicon nanowires; Gain; Optical waveguides; Photonics; Silicon; Telecommunications; Wires;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • Conference_Titel
    Optical Communication (ECOC), 2011 37th European Conference and Exhibition on
  • Conference_Location
    Geneva
  • ISSN
    Pending
  • Print_ISBN
    978-1-4577-1918-9
  • Type

    conf

  • Filename
    6065892