Enhanced second-harmonic generation in AlGaAs/AlxOy cavities embedded in submicron waveguides

Author

Scaccabarozzi, L. ; Huo, Y. ; Yu, X. ; Povinelli, M.L. ; Lin, A. ; Fan, S. ; Fejer, M.M. ; Harris, J.S.

Author_Institution

Appl. Phys. Dept., Stanford Univ., Stanford, CA

fYear

2006

fDate

21-26 May 2006

Firstpage

1

Lastpage

2

Abstract

We report cavity-enhanced second-harmonic generation from a tightly confining non-linear optical device for optical frequency conversion, which employs a novel waveguide-embedded dichroic mirror, highly reflective at the fundamental wavelength and transmissive at the second harmonic.

Keywords

III-V semiconductors; alumina; aluminium compounds; gallium arsenide; mirrors; optical harmonic generation; optical materials; optical waveguides; AlGaAs-Al_xO_y; cavity-enhanced second-harmonic generation; nonlinear optical device; optical frequency conversion; submicron waveguides; waveguide-embedded dichroic mirror; Birefringence; Integrated optics; Mirrors; Nonlinear optical devices; Nonlinear optics; Optical device fabrication; Optical resonators; Optical waveguides; Propagation losses; Reflectivity; (190.4390) Nonlinear optics, integrated optics; (230.5750) Resonators;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Lasers and Electro-Optics, 2006 and 2006 Quantum Electronics and Laser Science Conference. CLEO/QELS 2006. Conference on

Conference_Location

Long Beach, CA

Print_ISBN

978-1-55752-813-1

Electronic_ISBN

978-1-55752-813-1

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/CLEO.2006.4627788

Filename

4627788