Two-pump four-wave mixing in silicon waveguides for broadband wavelength conversion

Shiming Gao; Lizhong Cao; En-Kuang Tien; Yuewang Huang; Qiang Liu; Qi Song; Salih K. Kalyoncu; Sailing He; Ozdal Boyraz

doi:10.1117/12.892882

7 September 2011 Two-pump four-wave mixing in silicon waveguides for broadband wavelength conversion

Shiming Gao, Lizhong Cao, En-Kuang Tien, Yuewang Huang, Qiang Liu, Qi Song, Salih K. Kalyoncu, Sailing He, Ozdal Boyraz

Proceedings Volume 8120, Photonic Fiber and Crystal Devices: Advances in Materials and Innovations in Device Applications V; 81200O (2011) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.892882
Event: SPIE Photonic Devices + Applications, 2011, San Diego, California, United States

Abstract

Four-wave mixing (FWM) in silicon waveguides is considered to be a promising effect to realize the wavelength conversion function for wavelength-division-multiplexing optical communication systems. Compared to the degenerate FWM with a single pump, the nondegenerate FWM with two pumps shows more flexibility in phase-matching condition and has more opportunities to acquire broader conversion bandwidth. The bandwidth enhancement is theoretically analyzed for the two-pump FWM and an enhancement of 25% is experimentally demonstrated. Also, an ultra-broadband wavelength conversion is presented based on two-pump FWM by fixing one pump near the signal and scanning the other pumps.

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Shiming Gao, Lizhong Cao, En-Kuang Tien, Yuewang Huang, Qiang Liu, Qi Song, Salih K. Kalyoncu, Sailing He, and Ozdal Boyraz "Two-pump four-wave mixing in silicon waveguides for broadband wavelength conversion", Proc. SPIE 8120, Photonic Fiber and Crystal Devices: Advances in Materials and Innovations in Device Applications V, 81200O (7 September 2011); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.892882

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