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High Kerr nonlinearity hydrogenated amorphous silicon nanowires with low two photon absorption and high optical stability

Optics 2014-05-14 v1

Abstract

We demonstrate optically stable amorphous silicon nanowires with both high nonlinear figure of merit (FOM) of ~5 and high nonlinearity Re({\gamma}) = 1200W-1m-1. We observe no degradation in these parameters over the entire course of our experiments including systematic study under operation at 2 W coupled peak power (i.e. ~2GW/cm2) over timescales of at least an hour.

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@article{arxiv.1405.2904,
  title  = {High Kerr nonlinearity hydrogenated amorphous silicon nanowires with low two photon absorption and high optical stability},
  author = {C. Grillet and L. Carletti and C. Monat and P. Grosse and B. Ben Bakir and S. Menezo and J. M. Fedeli and David J. Moss},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1405.2904},
  year   = {2014}
}

Comments

8 pages, 7 figures, 33 references, 1 table. arXiv admin note: substantial text overlap with arXiv:1405.2392