Triply-resonant Continuous Wave Parametric Source with a Microwatt Pump

2016/02/12 by Aude Martin, Grégory Moille, Martin, Aude +15
Physics and Astronomy · #FOS: Physical sciences #Optics (physics.optics) #physics.optics

paper · pdf · doi:10.48550/arxiv.1602.04833

3 pages 3 figures 1 table

arxiv created 2016/02/12 · arxiv updated 2016/02/17

Abstract

We demonstrate a nanophotonic parametric light source with a record high normalized conversion efficiency of 3× 10⁶ W^-2, owing to resonantly enhanced four wave mixing in coupled high-Q photonic crystal resonators. The rate of spontaneously emitted photons reaches 14 MHz.

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