• DocumentCode
    2302691
  • Title

    High-gain Si-chip optical parametric mixing beyond two-photon absorption

  • Author

    Green, William M J ; Liu, Xiaoping ; Osgood, Richard M., Jr. ; Vlasov, Yurii A.

  • Author_Institution
    BM T. J. Watson Res. Center, Yorktown Heights, NY, USA
  • fYear
    2010
  • fDate
    7-11 Nov. 2010
  • Firstpage
    256
  • Lastpage
    257
  • Abstract
    A broadband silicon mid-infrared optical parametric amplifier operating near λ=2200nm, exhibiting maximum gain >;25dB, and net off-chip gain >;13dB, is presented. Broadband cascaded four-wave-mixing spanning a 500nm spectrum is facilitated by large on-chip gain.
  • Keywords
    elemental semiconductors; integrated optics; multiwave mixing; optical parametric amplifiers; photoexcitation; silicon; two-photon processes; Si; broadband cascaded four-wave-mixing; broadband silicon midinfrared optical parametric amplifier; high-gain Si-chip optical parametric mixing; off-chip gain; two-photon absorption; wavelength 2200 nm; wavelength 500 nm;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • Conference_Titel
    IEEE Photonics Society, 2010 23rd Annual Meeting of the
  • Conference_Location
    Denver, CO
  • ISSN
    -
  • Print_ISBN
    978-1-4244-5368-9
  • Electronic_ISBN
    -
  • Type

    conf

  • DOI
    10.1109/PHOTONICS.2010.5698856
  • Filename
    5698856