Phase sensitive amplification in silicon photonic crystal waveguides

2013/10/29 by Yanbing, Zhang, Husko, Chad +5
#FOS: Physical sciences #Optics (physics.optics)

paper · doi:10.48550/arxiv.1310.7670

Abstract

We experimentally demonstrate phase sensitive amplification (PSA) in a silicon photonic crystal waveguide based on pump-degenerate four-wave mixing. An 11 dB phase extinction ratio is obtained in a record compact 196 μm nanophotonic device due to broadband slow-light, in spite of the presence of two-photon absorption and free-carriers. Numerical calculations show good agreement with the experimental results.

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