• DocumentCode
    2227320
  • Title

    Highly-efficient four-wave mixing in a coupled-nanocavity waveguide

  • Author

    Matsuda, Nobuyuki ; Kato, Takumi ; Harada, Ken-ichi ; Takesue, Hiroki ; Kuramochi, Eiichi ; Notomi, Masaya

  • Author_Institution
    NTT Basic Res. Labs., NTT Corp., Atsugi, Japan
  • fYear
    2011
  • fDate
    1-6 May 2011
  • Firstpage
    1
  • Lastpage
    2
  • Abstract
    We demonstrate enhanced optical nonlinearity in a coupled-resonator optical waveguide comprised of 200 silicon photonic crystal nanocavities. We have obtained the effective nonlinear constant γ as 6,600 /W/m through the four wave mixing experiment.
  • Keywords
    multiwave mixing; nanophotonics; optical couplers; optical resonators; optical waveguides; photonic crystals; coupled-nanocavity waveguide; coupled-resonator optical waveguide; four-wave mixing; optical nonlinearity; photonic crystal nanocavities; Gain; Optical coupling; Optical device fabrication; Optical mixing; Optical pulses; Optical waveguides;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • Conference_Titel
    Lasers and Electro-Optics (CLEO), 2011 Conference on
  • Conference_Location
    Baltimore, MD
  • Print_ISBN
    978-1-4577-1223-4
  • Type

    conf

  • Filename
    5950119