Low power four wave mixing in an integrated, micro-ring resonator with Q = 1.2 million

Optics Express

Volumn 17, Issue 16, 2009, Pages 14098-14103

  Ferrera, M ^a   Duchesne, D ^a   Razzari, L ^a,b   Peccianti, M ^a   Morandotti, R ^a   Cheben, P ^c   Janz, S ^c   Xu, D X ^c   Little, B E ^d   Chu, S ^d   Moss, D J ^a,e  

^a INRS EMT   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PAVIA   (Italy)

^c NATIONAL RESEARCH COUNCIL CANADA   (Canada)

^d INFINERA CORPORATION   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DISPERSIONS; MIXER CIRCUITS; OPTICAL RESONATORS; OPTICAL WAVEGUIDES; PHASE MATCHING; Q FACTOR MEASUREMENT; RESONATORS;

CONTINUOUS WAVE; DOPED SILICAS; HIGH CONVERSION EFFICIENCY; HIGH INDEX; LOW DISPERSIONS; MICRORING RESONATOR; Q-FACTORS; TUNING RANGES;

FOUR WAVE MIXING;

ARTICLE; COMPUTER AIDED DESIGN; COMPUTER SIMULATION; EQUIPMENT; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; INSTRUMENTATION; LIGHT; OPTICAL INSTRUMENTATION; RADIATION SCATTERING; SYSTEM ANALYSIS; TELECOMMUNICATION; THEORETICAL MODEL; TRANSDUCER; VIBRATION;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; COMPUTER-AIDED DESIGN; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; EQUIPMENT FAILURE ANALYSIS; LIGHT; MODELS, THEORETICAL; OPTICAL DEVICES; SCATTERING, RADIATION; SYSTEMS INTEGRATION; TELECOMMUNICATIONS; TRANSDUCERS; VIBRATION;

EID: 68349130344     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.17.014098     Document Type: Article

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