Enhanced continuous-wave four-wave mixing efficiency in nonlinear AlGaAs waveguides

被引：41

作者：

Apiratikul, Paveen ^{[1
,2
]}

Wathen, Jeremiah J. ^{[1
,2
]}

Porkolab, Gyorgy A. ^{[1
,2
]}

Wang, Bohan ^{[1
]}

He, Lei ^{[1
,2
]}

Murphy, Thomas E. ^{[1
,2
]}

Richardson, Christopher J. K. ^{[2
]}

机构：

[1] Univ Maryland, College Pk, MD 20742 USA

[2] Lab Phys Sci, College Pk, MD 20740 USA

来源：

OPTICS EXPRESS | 2014年 / 22卷 / 22期

关键词：

WAVELENGTH CONVERSION; DISPERSION; FIBER; REFRACTION; POWER;

D O I：

10.1364/OE.22.026814

中图分类号：

O43 [光学];

学科分类号：

070207 ; 0803 ;

摘要：

Enhancements of the continuous-wave four-wave mixing conversion efficiency and bandwidth are accomplished through the application of plasma-assisted photoresist reflow to reduce the sidewall roughness of sub-square-micron-modal area waveguides. Nonlinear AlGaAs optical waveguides with a propagation loss of 0.56 dB/cm demonstrate continuous-wave four-wave mixing conversion efficiency of -7.8 dB. Narrow waveguides that are fabricated with engineered processing produce waveguides with uncoated sidewalls and anti-reflection coatings that show group velocity dispersion of +0.22 ps(2)/m. Waveguides that are 5-mm long demonstrate broadband four-wave mixing conversion efficiencies with a half-width 3-dB bandwidth of 63.8-nm. (C) 2014 Optical Society of America

引用

页码：26820 / 26830

页数：11

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