Low-power four-wave mixing in porous silicon microring resonators

Abstract

We report the measurement of low-power continuous-wave four-wave mixing in porous silicon microring resonators operating in the 1550 nm telecom band. Resonantly enhanced stimulated four-wave mixing has been measured in rings with 25 μm radius and quality factor around 5000 for pump powers as low as a few hundreds of microwatts. A waveguide nonlinear parameter γ = 20 W–1 m−1 has been determined. These results suggest further research on porous silicon for low-power nonlinear optics, possibly taking advantage of its tunable porosity.

Document Details

Document Type
Pub Defense Publication
Publication Date
Jul 11, 2016
Source ID
10.1063/1.4958698

Entities

People

  • A. Simbula
  • D. Bajoni
  • G. A. Rodriguez
  • M. Galli
  • M. Liscidini
  • M. Menotti
  • S. De Pace
  • S. M. Weiss

Organizations

  • Army Research Office
  • University of Pavia
  • Vanderbilt University

Tags

Fields of Study

  • Physics

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