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
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;
Conference_Titel :
Optical Communication (ECOC), 2011 37th European Conference and Exhibition on
Conference_Location :
Geneva
Print_ISBN :
978-1-4577-1918-9
