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5 December 2005 Nonlinearities in silicon-on-insulator optical waveguides
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Proceedings Volume 6019, Passive Components and Fiber-based Devices II; 60191K (2005) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.637129
Event: Asia-Pacific Optical Communications, 2005, Shanghai, China
Abstract
Recent results on the nonlinear optical properties of silicon-on-insulator waveguides are reviewed. Interest on two photon absorption (TPA) in silicon has been raised by its potential applications for square law detection in autocorrelators for measuring pulsewidths and cross correlators for high speed all-optical clock recovery, high speed optical switches and optical wavelength conversion. The results reported by different groups on two photon absorption, optical Kerr effect, and Raman gain are compared and the range of possible values for the nonlinear figure of merit are calculated. The nonlinear figure of merit obtained from the average values of the various published experimental values suggests that silicon is suitable for all-optical nonlinear refractive switches which need only pi phase change but is not suitable for switches which need several pi of nonlinear phase change. The recent developments on obtaining optical gain using stimulated Raman scattering in silicon are also discussed.
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H. K. Tsang "Nonlinearities in silicon-on-insulator optical waveguides", Proc. SPIE 6019, Passive Components and Fiber-based Devices II, 60191K (5 December 2005); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.637129
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KEYWORDS
Silicon

Waveguides

Absorption

Raman scattering

Nonlinear optics

Scanning probe microscopy

Raman spectroscopy

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