Nonlinear properties of and nonlinear processing in hydrogenated amorphous silicon waveguides

B. Kuyken, Hua Ji, S. Clemmen, S. K. Selvaraja, Hao Hu, Minhao Pu, Michael Galili, Palle Jeppesen, G. Morthier, S. Massar, Leif Katsuo Oxenløwe, G. Roelkens, R. Baets

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    Abstract

    We propose hydrogenated amorphous silicon nanowires as a platform for nonlinear optics in the telecommunication wavelength range. Extraction of the nonlinear parameter of these photonic nanowires reveals a figure of merit larger than 2. It is observed that the nonlinear optical properties of these waveguides degrade with time, but that this degradation can be reversed by annealing the samples. A four wave mixing conversion efficiency of + 12 dB is demonstrated in a 320 Gbit/s serial optical waveform data sampling experiment in a 4 mm long photonic nanowire.
    Original languageEnglish
    JournalOptics Express
    Volume19
    Issue number26
    Pages (from-to)B146-B153
    ISSN1094-4087
    DOIs
    Publication statusPublished - 2011

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