Mid-infrared optical parametric amplifier using silicon nanophotonic waveguides

By Xiaoping Liu, Richard M. Osgood, Yurii A. Vlasov, William M. J. Green. 2010

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By taking advantage of the absorption reduction at wavelengths approaching the two-photon absorption bandedge of 2,200 nm, scientists demonstrate a mid-infrared silicon optical parametric amplifier that exhibits broadband gain as large as 25.4 dB and a net off-chip amplification of 13 dB using only an ultra-compact 4-mm silicon chip.

Subfields: Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics, Electrical and Electronic Engineering

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7. Lionel C. Kimerling
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In Electrical and Electronic Engineering

1. David J. Moss
2. Roberto Morandotti
3. Arnan Mitchell
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5. M. G. Thompson
6. Xiaoxiao Xue
7. Lionel C. Kimerling
8. Andrew M. Weiner

Citations in the corpus

• Micro-combs: A novel generation of optical sources (2017, background): “The critical impact of the large silicon TPA was illustrated in 2010 by the demonstration of high parametric gain atwavelengths beyond 2μm[125,126], where TPA vanishes.”
• Mid-infrared integrated photonics on silicon: a perspective (2017, background): “Both metrics represent major improvements over the initial on-chip mid-IR OPA demonstration by the same group where a non-optimized waveguide design was used [103].”
• Silicon Quantum Photonics (2015, background): “all-optical switches [160], [161]; FWM frequency-conversion [162]; Raman lasing [163]; and FWM and Raman parametric amplification [164], [165].”
• Towards ultrasensitive optical links enabled by low-noise phase-sensitive amplifiers (2011, background): “However, our results are generic in the sense that other (3) -based nonlinear materials such as silico”
• Quantum random number generators (2016, methodology): “Instead, we could use χ(3) effects in integrated optical parametric oscillators (Liu et al., 2010a; Razzari et al., 2010).”
• Expanding the Silicon Photonics Portfolio With Silicon Nitride Photonic Integrated Circuits (2017, unknown): “Non-linear photonic functions such as parametric amplification [52] and wavelength conversion [53] have also been demonstrated in the mid-IR and short-wave IR, because of the reduced nonlinear absorption here.”
• Mid-infrared Suspended Membrane Waveguide and Ring Resonator on Silicon-on-Insulator (2012, background): “Nonlinear silicon photonics has many applications, such as wavelength conversion, optical signal processing, and supercontinuum generation [1]–[3].”
• Mid-infrared octave spanning supercontinuum generation to 8.5 μm in silicon-germanium waveguides (2018, methodology): “Various approaches have been used to achieve spectrally bright mid-IR sources, such as stand-alone quantum cascade lasers (QCLs) or tunable optical parametric amplifiers (OPAs) [5,6].”
• Nonlinear silicon photonics (2010, methodology): “Amplification in silicon has also been demonstrated using FW”