• DocumentCode
    2242466
  • Title

    Efficient frequency conversion at low-powers in a silicon microresonator using carrier extraction

  • Author

    Cardenas, Jaime ; Levy, Jacob S. ; Wiederhecker, Gustavo ; Turner-Foster, Amy ; Gaeta, Alexander L. ; Lipson, Michal

  • Author_Institution
    Dept. of Electr. & Comput. Eng., Cornell Univ., Ithaca, NY, USA
  • fYear
    2011
  • fDate
    1-6 May 2011
  • Firstpage
    1
  • Lastpage
    2
  • Abstract
    We demonstrate four-wave mixing in a silicon microresonator at low powers using a PIN diode to extract the generated carriers. We achieve conversion efficiencies as high as -6.6 dB with 7 mW of input power.
  • Keywords
    elemental semiconductors; micro-optomechanical devices; micromechanical resonators; multiwave mixing; optical frequency conversion; optical resonators; p-i-n diodes; silicon; PIN diode; Si; carrier extraction; carrier generation; four-wave mixing; frequency conversion; power 7 mW; silicon microresonator; Nonlinear optics; Optical pumping; Optical ring resonators; Optical waveguides; Optical wavelength conversion; PIN photodiodes; Silicon;
  • 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
    5950708
    • Link To Document
    https://search.isc.ac/dl/search/defaultta.aspx?DTC=49&DC=2242466