Simulation of silicon ridge waveguide enhanced two-photon absorption from femtosecond pulses
Optics
2025-06-24 v1
Abstract
Field enhancement of two-photon absorption from a 50-fs pulse on a silicon ridge waveguide is simulated for a varying energy downward propagating 800+/-9.42 nm wavelength plane-wave orthonormal to a waveguide in 2D FDTD using ANSYS Lumerical FDTD. Energy absorbed by the waveguide is enhanced due to mode confinement within the standard 500 nm width, 130 nm height silicon ridge waveguide on 90 nm thick silicon and 3 {\mu}m silicon dioxide insulator.
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@article{arxiv.2506.18098,
title = {Simulation of silicon ridge waveguide enhanced two-photon absorption from femtosecond pulses},
author = {Cael Warner and Ruoheng Zhang},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2506.18098},
year = {2025}
}
Comments
7 pages main, 8 pages supplementary. 5 figures main, 5 figures supplementary. Experimental data in Fig. 4, from a thesis, supplementary description. Maybe useful for comparisons with future experiments because of standard software ANSYS Lumerical FDTD