Title :
Forming a nonlinear grating in Silicon nanowire waveguides using the intrinsic anisotropic Kerr nonlinearity of Silicon
Author :
Driscoll, Jeffrey B. ; Grote, Richard R. ; Liu, Xiaoping ; Dadap, Jerry I. ; Panoiu, Nicolae C. ; Osgood, Richard M., Jr.
Author_Institution :
Microelectron. Sci. Labs., Columbia Univ., New York, NY, USA
Abstract :
We present a numerical analysis demonstrating that the anisotropy of the Kerr effect in Silicon can be used to form a nonlinear grating in Silicon waveguides with uniform cross-section.
Keywords :
anisotropic media; diffraction gratings; elemental semiconductors; nanophotonics; nanowires; optical Kerr effect; optical waveguides; silicon; Kerr effect anisotropy; Si; intrinsic anisotropic Kerr nonlinearity; nanowire waveguide; nonlinear grating; Crystals; Gratings; Nonlinear optics; Optical device fabrication; Optical ring resonators; Optical waveguides; Silicon;
Conference_Titel :
Lasers and Electro-Optics (CLEO), 2011 Conference on
Conference_Location :
Baltimore, MD
Print_ISBN :
978-1-4577-1223-4
