• DocumentCode
    520077
  • 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
  • fYear
    2010
  • fDate
    16-21 May 2010
  • Firstpage
    1
  • Lastpage
    2
  • 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;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • 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
  • Type

    conf

  • Filename
    5499637