Title :
Positive and negative mechanical Kerr nonlinearities in periodically-patterned silicon waveguides
Author :
Ma, Jing ; Povinelli, Michelle L.
Author_Institution :
Ming Hsieh Dept. of Electr. Eng., Univ. of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA, USA
Abstract :
We design periodic silicon waveguides with mechanical Kerr coefficients of positive or negative sign. The mechanical Kerr coefficient is >3 orders of magnitude larger than the Kerr coefficient of silicon for suspended lengths ~30 μm.
Keywords :
optical Kerr effect; optical design techniques; optical waveguides; silicon; mechanical Kerr coefficients; mechanical Kerr nonlinearitiy; periodically-patterned silicon waveguides; Silicon;
Conference_Titel :
Lasers and Electro-Optics (CLEO) and Quantum Electronics and Laser Science Conference (QELS), 2010 Conference on
Conference_Location :
San Jose, CA
Print_ISBN :
978-1-55752-890-2
Electronic_ISBN :
978-1-55752-890-2
