Enhanced stimulated Raman scattering in slow-light photonic crystal waveguides

Author

McMillan, James F. ; Yang, Xiaodong ; Panoiu, Nicolae C. ; Osgood, Richard M. ; Wong, Chee Wei

Author_Institution

Opt. Nanostruct. Lab., Columbia Univ., New York, NY

fYear

2006

fDate

21-26 May 2006

Firstpage

1

Lastpage

2

Abstract

We investigate slow-light enhancement of stimulated Raman scattering in monolithic silicon photonic crystal defect waveguides. The applied Bloch-Floquet formalism demonstrates remarkable gain enhancements up to 10⁴ at the band-edges, while considering disorder, absorption and coupling.

Keywords

integrated optics; optical waveguides; photonic crystals; stimulated Raman scattering; applied Bloch-Floquet formalism; enhanced stimulated Raman scattering; monolithic silicon photonic crystal defect waveguides; slow-light enhancement; slow-light photonic crystal waveguides; Nonlinear optics; Optical mixing; Optical pumping; Optical scattering; Optical waveguide theory; Optical waveguides; Photonic crystals; Raman scattering; Silicon; Stimulated emission; (130.2790) Guided waves; (250.5300) Photonic integrated circuits; (290.5910) Scattering, Stimulated Raman;

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.2006.4629154

Filename

4629154