Title :
Broadband CARS wavelength conversion in silicon
Author :
Koonath, Prakash ; Solli, Daniel R. ; Jalali, Bahram
Author_Institution :
Dept. of Electr. Eng., Univ. of California, Los Angeles, CA, USA
Abstract :
Broadband coherent antistokes Raman scattering (CARS) is observed experimentally in silicon, facilitated by self-phase modulation induced spectral broadening of the pump. Numerical modeling reveals the strong influence of free carrier dynamics on the CARS process.
Keywords :
coherent antiStokes Raman scattering; elemental semiconductors; optical materials; optical pumping; optical wavelength conversion; self-phase modulation; silicon; spectral line broadening; Si; broadband CARS; coherent antistokes Raman scattering; free carrier dynamics; numerical modeling; optical pump; self-phase modulation; spectral broadening; wavelength conversion; Bandwidth; Nonlinear optics; Optical pulses; Optical pumping; Optical scattering; Optical waveguides; Optical wavelength conversion; Phase modulation; Raman scattering; Silicon; (130.3120) Integrated Optics Devices; (190.4360) Nonlinear Optics Devices;
Conference_Titel :
Group IV Photonics, 2009. GFP '09. 6th IEEE International Conference on
Conference_Location :
San Francisco, CA
Print_ISBN :
978-1-4244-4402-1
Electronic_ISBN :
1949-2081
DOI :
10.1109/GROUP4.2009.5338351
