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Self Phase Modulation and Cross Phase Modulation in Nonlinear Silicon Waveguides for On-Chip Optical Networks -- A Tutorial

Optics 2024-12-03 v1 Systems and Control Signal Processing Systems and Control Applied Physics Computational Physics

Abstract

Silicon is a nonlinear material and optics based on silicon makes use of these nonlinearities to realize various functionalities required for on-chip communications. This article describes foundations of these nonlinearities in silicon at length. Particularly, self phase modulation and cross phase modulation in the context of integrated on-board and on-chip communications are presented. Important published results and principles of working of these nonlinearities are presented in considerable detail for non-expert readers.

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@article{arxiv.2412.01286,
  title  = {Self Phase Modulation and Cross Phase Modulation in Nonlinear Silicon Waveguides for On-Chip Optical Networks -- A Tutorial},
  author = {Abdurrahman Javid Shaikh and Othman Sidek and Fauzi Packeer},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2412.01286},
  year   = {2024}
}
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