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Observations of four-wave mixing in slow-light silicon photonic crystal waveguides

Optics 2015-05-18 v1

Abstract

Four-wave mixing is observed in a silicon W1 photonic crystal waveguide. The dispersion dependence of the idler conversion efficiency is measured and shown to be enhanced at wavelengths exhibiting slow group velocities. A 12-dB increase in the conversion efficiency is observed. Concurrently, a decrease in the conversion bandwidth is observed due to the increase in group velocity dispersion in the slow-light regime. The experimentally observed conversion efficiencies agree with the numerically modeled results.

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@article{arxiv.1004.1642,
  title  = {Observations of four-wave mixing in slow-light silicon photonic crystal waveguides},
  author = {James F. McMillan and Mingbin Yu and Dim-Lee Kwong and Chee Wei Wong},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1004.1642},
  year   = {2015}
}

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12 pages, 6 figures