Vectorial nonlinear propagation in silicon nanowire waveguides: Polarization effects

Journal of the Optical Society of America B: Optical Physics

Volumn 27, Issue 5, 2010, Pages 956-965

  Daniel, Brian A ^a   Agrawal, Govind P ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ROCHESTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

NANOWIRES; POLARIZATION;

INDUCED POLARIZATION; INTENSITY DISCRIMINATION; MAGNETIC MODES; NANOSCALE DIMENSIONS; NON-LINEAR PARAMETERS; NONLINEAR PROPAGATION; OPTICAL FIELD; OPTICAL MODES; OPTICAL PULSE; POLARIZATION EFFECT; POLARIZATION STATE; SILICON NANOWIRES; SILICON WAVEGUIDE; TRANSVERSE ELECTRICS; WAVEGUIDE DIMENSIONS; WAVEGUIDE GEOMETRY;

WAVEGUIDES;

EID: 77955704437     PISSN: 07403224     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/JOSAB.27.000956     Document Type: Article

References (34)

1. Q. Lin, O. J. Painter, and G. P. Agrawal, "Nonlinear optical phenomena in silicon waveguides: modeling and applications," Opt. Express 15, 16604-16644 (2007).
2. R. M. Osgood, Jr., N. C. Panoiu, J. I. Dadap, X. Liu, X. Chen, I.-W. Hsieh, E. Dulkeith, W. M. Green, and Y. A. Vlasov, "Engineering nonlinearities in nanoscale optical systems: physics and applications in dispersion-engineered silicon nanophotonic wires," Adv. Opt. Photon. 1, 162-235 (2009).
3. I. D. Rukhlenko, M. Premaratne, and G. P. Agrawal, "Nonlinear silicon photonics: analytical tools," IEEE J. Sel. Top. Quantum Electron. 16, 200-215 (2010).
4. O. Boyraz and B. Jalali, "Demonstration of a silicon Raman laser," Opt. Express 12, 5269-5273 (2004).
5. H. Rong, S. Xu, O. Cohen, O. Raday, M. Lee, V. Sih, and M. Paniccia, "A cascaded silicon Raman laser," Nat. Photonics 2, 170-174 (2008).
6. O. Boyraz, P. Koonath, V. Raghunathan, and B. Jalali, "All optical switching and continuum generation in silicon waveguides," Opt. Express 12, 4094-4102 (2004).
7. R. Dekker, A. Driessen, T. Wahlbrink, C. Moormann, J. Niehusmann, and M. Först, "Ultrafast Kerr-induced all-optical wavelength conversion in silicon waveguides using 1.55μm femtosecond pulses," Opt. Express 14, 8336-8346 (2006). (Pubitemid 44331051)
8. M. A. Foster, A. C. Turner, J. E. Sharping, B. S. Schmidt, M. Lipson, and A. L. Gaeta, "Broad-band optical parametric gain on a silicon photonic chip," Nature 441, 960-963 (2006).
9. Y. Kuo, H. Rong, V. Sih, S. Xu, M. Paniccia, and O. Cohen, "Demonstration of wavelength conversion at 40 Gb/s data rate in silicon waveguides," Opt. Express 14, 11721-11726 (2006). (Pubitemid 44826858)
10. S. Ayotte, H. Rong, S. Xu, O. Cohen, and M. J. Paniccia, "Multichannel dispersion compensation using a silicon waveguide-based optical phase conjugator," Opt. Lett. 32, 2393-2395 (2007). (Pubitemid 351299415)
11. R. Salem, M. A. Foster, A. C. Turner, D. F. Geraghty, M. Lipson, and A. L. Gaeta, "Signal regeneration using lowpower four-wave mixing on silicon chip," Nat. Photonics 2, 35-38 (2008).
12. M. A. Foster, R. Salem, D. F. Geraghty, A. C. Turner-Foster, M. Lipson, and A. L. Gaeta, "Silicon-chip-based ultrafast optical oscilloscope," Nature 456, 81-84 (2007).
13. Y. Dai, X. Chen, Y. Okawachi, A. C. Turner-Foster, M. A. Foster, M. Lipson, A. L. Gaeta, and C. Xu, "1μs tunable delay using parametric mixing and optical phase conjugation in Si waveguides," Opt. Express 17, 7004-7010 (2009).
14. H. K. Tsang, C. S. Wong, T. K. Liang, I. E. Day, S. W. Roberts, A. Harpin, J. Drake, and M. Asghari, "Optical dispersion, two-photon absorption and self-phase modulation in silicon waveguides at 1.5μm wavelength," Appl. Phys. Lett. 80, 416-418 (2002).
15. M. Dinu, F. Quochi, and H. Garcia, "Third-order nonlinearities in silicon at telecom wavelengths," Appl. Phys. Lett. 82, 2954-2956 (2003).
16. G. W. Rieger, K. S. Virk, and J. F. Young, "Nonlinear propagation of ultrafast 1.5μm pulses in high-index-contrast silicon-on-insulator waveguides," Appl. Phys. Lett. 84, 900-902 (2004).
17. O. Boyraz, T. Indukuri, and B. Jalali, "Self-phasemodulation induced spectral broadening in silicon waveguides," Opt. Express 12, 829-834 (2004).
18. A. R. Cowan, G. W. Rieger, and J. F. Young, "Nonlinear transmission of 1.5μm pulses through single-mode siliconon- insulator waveguide structures," Opt. Express 12, 1611-1621 (2004).
19. H. Yamada, M. Shirane, T. Chu, H. Yokoyama, S. Ishida, and Y. Arakawa, "Nonlinear-optic silicon-nanowire waveguides," Jpn. J. Appl. Phys. 44, 6541-6545 (2005).
20. I. Hsieh, X. Chen, J. I. Dadap, N. C. Panoiu, R. M. Osgood, Jr., S. J. McNab, and Y. A. Vlasov, "Ultrafast-pulse selfphase modulation and third-order dispersion in Si photonicwire waveguides," Opt. Express 14, 12380-12387 (2006).
21. L. Yin and G. P. Agrawal, "Impact of two-photon absorption on self-phase-modulation in silicon waveguides," Opt. Lett. 32, 2031-2033 (2007).
22. S. Afshar V., W. Q. Zhang, H. Ebendorff-Heidepriem, and T. M. Monro, "Small core optical waveguides are more nonlinear than expected: experimental confirmation," Opt. Lett. 34, 3577-3579 (2009).
23. S. Afshar V. and T. M. Monro, "A full vectorial model for pulse propagation in emerging waveguides with subwavelength structures part 1: Kerr nonlinearity," Opt. Express 17, 2298-2318 (2009).
24. J. B. Driscoll, X. Liu, S. Yasseri, I. Hsieh, J. I. Dadap, and R. M. Osgood, Jr., "Large longitudinal electric fields(Ez)in silicon nanowire waveguides," Opt. Express 17, 2797-2804 (2009).
25. J. I. Dadap, N. C. Panoiu, X. Chen, I. Hsieh, X. Liu, C. Chou, E. Dulkeith, S. J. McNab, F. Xia, W. M. J. Green, L. Sekaric, Y. A. Vlasov, and R. M. Osgood, Jr., "Nonlinearoptical phase modification in dispersion-engineered Si photonic wires," Opt. Express 16, 1280-1299 (2008).
26. A. W. Snyder and J. D. Love, Optical Waveguide Theory (Kluwer Academic, 2000).
27. P. N. Butcher and D. Cotter, The Elements of Nonlinear Optics (Cambridge U. Press, 1990).
28. J. Zhang, Q. Lin, G. Piredda, R. W. Boyd, G. P. Agrawal, and P. M. Fauchet, "Anisotropic nonlinear response of silicon in the near-infrared region," Appl. Phys. Lett. 91, 071113 (2007).
29. Q. Lin, J. Zhang, G. Piredda, R. W. Boyd, P. M. Fauchet, and G. P. Agrawal, "Dispersion of silicon nonlinearities in the near infrared region," Appl. Phys. Lett. 91, 021111 (2007).
30. R. A. Soref and B. R. Bennett, "Electrooptical effects in silicon," IEEE J. Quantum Electron. QE-23, 123-129 (1987).
31. X. Chen, N. C. Panoiu, and R. M. Osgood, Jr., "Theory of Raman-mediated pulsed amplification in silicon-wire waveguides," IEEE J. Quantum Electron. 42, 160-170 (2006).
32. G. P. Agrawal, Nonlinear Fiber Optics (Academic, 2007).
33. P. Lüsse, P. Stuwe, J. Schüle, and H. G. Unger, "Analysis of vectorial mode fields in optical waveguides by a new finite difference method," J. Lightwave Technol. 12, 487-494 (1994).
34. M. Born and E. Wolf, Principles of Optics (Cambridge U. Press, 2005).