• DocumentCode
    732715
  • Title

    Silicon carbide microresonators with high optical Q and large Kerr nonlinearity for nonlinear optics

  • Author

    Xiyuan Lu ; Lee, Jonathan Y. ; Rogers, Steven ; Qiang Lin

  • Author_Institution
    Dept. of Phys. & Astron., Univ. of Rochester, Rochester, NY, USA
  • fYear
    2015
  • fDate
    10-15 May 2015
  • Firstpage
    1
  • Lastpage
    2
  • Abstract
    We demonstrate an amorphous silicon carbide (a-SiC) microresonator with optical Q up to 1.3 × 105. This enables us to characterize the third-order nonlinearity of a-SiC with n2 = (5.9 ± 0.7) × 10-15 cm2/W in the telecom band.
  • Keywords
    Q-factor; amorphous semiconductors; micro-optics; microcavities; optical Kerr effect; optical resonators; silicon compounds; wide band gap semiconductors; Kerr nonlinearity; SiC; amorphous silicon carbide microresonators; high optical Q; nonlinear optics; telecom band; third order nonlinearity; Nonlinear optics; Optical device fabrication; Optical modulation; Optical pumping; Probes; Silicon carbide;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • Conference_Titel
    Lasers and Electro-Optics (CLEO), 2015 Conference on
  • Conference_Location
    San Jose, CA
  • Type

    conf

  • Filename
    7183151
    • Link To Document
    https://search.isc.ac/dl/search/defaultta.aspx?DTC=49&DC=732715