[PDF] Top 20 Linear, nonlinear and quantum optics in Silicon Photonics

... This chapter addresses the study of Multimodal Four Wave Mixing (MMFWM) in straight Silicon waveguides. Together with Chapter 4, it belongs to that part of the project SIQURO which aims to the realization of ... See full document

... A linear pulse propagating in such a system sees a local dispersion of large magnitude continously changing from normal to anomalous and viceversa which produces a quasi- periodic pulse spreading and compression ... See full document

... the silicon waveg- uides can be tapered and combined with a polymer overlay waveguide; in this case, a coupling loss of ...non- linear materials/platforms such as silicon nitride (including ... See full document

... of quantum states and to the forsaken spectral overlap with the GaAlAs ...InAlAs=GaAlAs quantum dots open very promising perspectives, both for cw and pulsed nonlinear or even self-organizing optical ... See full document

... Quantum photonics is a rapidly developing platform for future quantum network ...embedded quantum emitters act as both nonlinear elements to mediate photon–photon inter- actions and as ... See full document

... temperature silicon nitride platform and how its linear and nonlinear properties can be tailored for a wide variety of ...enhanced nonlinear properties that can be used for all optical ... See full document

... To ensure that no terms were overlooked, we formulated the ABM from first prin- ciples, starting with the expression for the four-potential for an accelerating charge distribu- tion. As a result of this work, several ... See full document

... of nonlinear op- tics ...Nowadays, nonlinear optics finds lots of applications in many ...[27]. Nonlinear optics is the key enabling technology for the field of all-optical signal ... See full document

... low linear and, perhaps more importantly, low nonlinear optical loss 173,174 ...to silicon oxynitride – has a lower nonlinearity than silicon, very high Q ring resonators can be achieved (> ... See full document

... other nonlinear effects. For these measurements one may observe the linear oscillator response independent of the direction of the frequency scan and thus be able to obtain a reliable estimate for the ... See full document

... quadratic nonlinear waveguide array with different linear absorption in all ...in nonlinear one mode optical waveguides with arbitrary scattering loss [99], as well quantum and classical ... See full document

... Before the use of ultra-high-Q microresonators for photonics applications could advance, the problem of efficient excitation and extraction of optical energy from these structures needed to be solved. Most ... See full document

... Physical implementation. Now we furnish a straightfor- ward physical implementation for the quantum maps pre- sented above. Up to now, several linear optical schemes gen- erating MEMS states were proposed ... See full document

... Whispering Gallery Mode (WGM) resonators are, arguably, the most promising competitor to SPR biosensors. ey are entirely made with low-loss dielectrics, and for this reason their resonances are much sharper and more ... See full document

... In Chapter 5, a novel compact polarization rotator based on an asymmetric Si nanowire has been presented. The Si polarization rotator proposed here shown a very compact design which does not need a slanted side wall or a ... See full document

... of silicon and silica as shown schematically in ...typical silicon photonic multi-project wafer runs, h = 220 nm and the silicon layer sits on top of a 3 µm buried-oxide (BOX) layer; it is covered by ... See full document

... the silicon below the polymer in (a). c: meas- ured silicon profile (green) versus the theoretical curve (red) required for implementing the Luneburg ... See full document

... Upon this cladding layer made of oxide, a layer of higher index material is deposited to form the guiding structures. This step is realized either via LPCVD or via Plasma Enhanced Chemical Vapor Deposition (PECVD). The ... See full document

... Figure 5.5.2 shows the current-voltage (I-V) curves of the devices. According to the I-V measurements, conductivity of the Q1 device is higher than those of the other devices under forward bias. This is expected since Q1 ... See full document

... the nonlinear parameter of up to 16 times and an improved nonlinear FOM of up to a factor of ...Kerr nonlinear optical performance, thus transforming silicon into a highly performing ... See full document