Low-power continuous-wave nonlinear optics in doped silica glass integrated waveguide structures

Nature Photonics

Volumn 2, Issue 12, 2008, Pages 737-740

  Ferrera, M ^a   Razzari, L ^a,b   Duchesne, D ^a   Morandotti, R ^a   Yang, Z ^c   Liscidini, M ^c   Sipe, J E ^c   Chu, S ^d   Little, B E ^d   Moss, D J ^a,e  

^a INRS EMT   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PAVIA   (Italy)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

^d INFINERA CORPORATION   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHALCOGENIDE GLASS; DESIGN FLEXIBILITY; FABRICATION TECHNOLOGIES; INTEGRATED WAVEGUIDES; LOW ENERGY CONSUMPTION; NETWORK FLEXIBILITY; PHOTONIC INTEGRATED CIRCUITS; SILICA-BASED GLASS;

ALUMINUM GALLIUM ARSENIDE; CHALCOGENIDES; ENERGY UTILIZATION; GLASS; LOW POWER ELECTRONICS; OPTICAL WAVEGUIDES; PHOTONIC DEVICES; PHOTONIC INTEGRATION TECHNOLOGY; TELECOMMUNICATION NETWORKS; WAVEGUIDES;

NONLINEAR OPTICS;

EID: 57149109378     PISSN: 17494885     EISSN: 17494893     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nphoton.2008.228     Document Type: Article

References (30)

1. Eggleton, B. J., Radic, S. & Moss, D. J. Nonlinear Optics in Communications: From Crippling Impairment to Ultrafast Tools Ch. 20 (Academic Press, 2008).
2. Ta'eed, V. G. et al. Ultrafast all-optical chalcogenlde glass photonic circuits. Opt. Express 15, 9205-9221 (2007).
3. Salem, R. et al. Signal regeneration using low-power four-wave mixing on silicon chip. Nature Photonics 2, 35-38 (2008).
4. Aitchison, J.S., Mulchings, D. C., Kang, J, U., Stegernan, G. I. & Villeneuve, A. The nonlinear optical properties of AlGaAs at the half band gap. IEEE J. Quant. Electron. 33, 341-348 (1997).
5. Little, B. E. et al Very high-order microring resonator filters for WDM applications. IEEE Photon. Technol. Lett. 16, 2263-2265 (2004).
6. Salem, R. et al. All-optical regeneration on a silicon chip. Opt. Express 15, 7802-7809 (2007).
7. Ta'eed, V. G. et al. Integrated all-optical pulse regeneration in chalcogenide waveguides. Opt. Lett. 30, 2900-2902 (2005).
8. -1 optical time-division demultiplexing by four-wave mixing. IEEE Photon. Technol. Lett. 19, 1496-1498(2007).
9. Yeom, D. I. et al. Low-threshold supercontinuum generation In highly nonlinear chalcogenide nanowires. Opt. Lett. 33, 660-662 (2008).
10. Yin, L. & Agrawal, G. P. Impact of two-photon absorption on self-phase modulation in silicon waveguides, Opt Lett. 32, 2031-2033 (2007).
11. Dinu, M., Quochi, E & Garcia, H. Third-order nonlinearities in silicon at telecom wavelengths. Appl Phys, Lett. 82, 2954-2936 (2003).
12. Asobe, M. Nonlinear optical properties of chalcogenide glass fibers and their application to alloptical switching. Opt. Fiber Technol. 3, 142-148 (1997).
13. Gattass, R. R., Svacha, G. T., Tong, L. & Mazur, E. Supercontinuum generation in submicrometer diameter silica fibers. Opt. Express 14, 9408-9414 (2006).
14. Tong, L. et al. Subwavelength-diameter silica wires for low-loss optical wave guiding. Nature 426, 816-819 (2003).
15. Suntsov, S. et al. Observation of one- and two-dimensional discrete surface spatial solitons. J. Nonlinear Opt Phys. Mater. 16, 401-426 (2007).
16. Turner, A. C., Foster, M. A., Gaeta, A. L. & Lipson, M, Ultra-low power parametric frequency conversion in a silicon microring resonator. Opt. Express 16, 4881-4887 (2008).
17. Absil, P. P. et al. Wavelength conversion in GaAs micro-ring resonators. Opt. Lett. 25, 554-556 (2000).
18. Kippenberg, T. J., Spillane, S. M. & Vahala, K. J. Kerr-nonlinearity optical parametric oscillation in an ultrahigh-Q toroid rnicrocavity. Phys. Rev. Lett. 93, 083904 (2004).
19. Spillane, S. M., Kippenberg, T. J. & Vahala, K. J. Ultralow-threshold Raman laser using a spherical dielectric microcavity. Nature 415, 621-623 (2002).
20. Carmon, T. & Vahala, K.J. Visible continuous emission from a silica microphotonic device by thirdharmonic generation. Nature Phys. 3, 430-435 (2007).
21. ® is a proprietary glass commercially available from Infinera Ltd. wwww.infinera.com.
22. Little, B. E. A VLSI photonics platform. Opt Fiber Comtnun. 2, 444-445 (2003).
23. Izhaky, N. et al. Development of CMOS-compatible integrated silicon photonics devices. IEEE J. Set. Top. Quant. Electron. 12, 1688 (2006).
24. Duchesne, D. et al. Large Kerr nonlinearity in ultra low loss high-index glass waveguides. Paper CTuS6, in IEEE/OSA Conf. for Lasers and Electro-Optics (CLEO) (IEEE, San Jose, 2008).
25. Doerr, G. R. & Okamoto, K. Advances in planar lightwave circuits. IEEEJ. Lightwave Technol. 24, 4763-4789 (2006).
26. Foster, M. A, et al. Broad-band optical parametric gain on a silicon photonic chip. Nature 441, 960-963 (2006).
27. Fukuta, H. et al. Four-wave mixing in silicon wire waveguides. Opt. Express 13, 4629-4637 (2005).
28. p-1 data in silicon waveguides. Opt. Express 14, 1182-1188 (2006).
29. Van, V. et al. Optical signal processing using nonlinear semiconductor microring resonators. IEEE J. Sel. Top. Quant. Electron. 8, 705-713 (2002).
30. Monro, T. M. & Ebendorff-Heidepriem, H. Progress in microstructured optical fibers. Annu. Rev. Mater. Res. 36, 467-495 (2006).