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
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;
Conference_Titel :
Lasers and Electro-Optics (CLEO), 2011 Conference on
Conference_Location :
Baltimore, MD
Print_ISBN :
978-1-4577-1223-4
