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Graphene plasmonics is a promising building block for high speed communication devices that takes advantage of strong confinement of the electromagnetic energy at sub-wavelength scales, tunable via charge carrier density through a gate voltage.[1] The fabrication of integrated optoelectronic devices based on graphene plasmons however is extremely challenging, and launching and conveying graphene plasmons...
Lithium niobate whispering-gallery resonators (WGRs) show high intensity enhancement due to small mode volumes and high Q-factors. With bulk WGRs, shaped by diamond-blade-cutting tools followed by surface polishing, Q-factors in the range of 1011 have been demonstrated, which make them of significant interest for e.g. nonlinear-optical frequency conversion [1]. However, WGRs are still rare in commercial...
Within Silicon-based waveguide arrays, we demonstrate that sub-λ, below band-gap, nanostructured waveguides can provide a robust control and a fine tuning of the coupling coefficient.
We report our advances in development of subwavelength engineered metamaterial structures in silicon waveguides, specifically high-efficiency fiber-chip couplers, ultra-broadband surface grating couplers and nanophotonic beam splitters, evanescent field waveguide sensors and on-chip Fourier-transform spectrometers.
Using coherent photon conversion (CPC) we generate large effective X(2) nonlinearities in a X(3)-nonlinear Si3N4 microring-resonator and measure an effective second harmonic generation efficiency of 77%/mW.
Grating based fiber-chip couplers are an excellent scheme to couple between a sub-micron waveguide and an optical fiber. However, the operation bandwidth of the grating couplers is restricted to a particular wavelength band though high-coupler efficiency is achievable. An application such as Passive Optical Networks that use both O and C-band, it becomes essential to that grating couplers can be operated...
Quantum optics experiments are increasingly taking an integrated format for the benefits of phase stability and scalability. Silica has proved an advantageous material for this work due to its low propagation loss and high-efficiency coupling to optical fibre, and a number of key on-chip experiments have already been carried out with up to four photons using this material [1]. Fabrication imperfections...
Silicon nitride (Si3N4) waveguide platforms [1,2] are interesting candidates for optical interconnects and sensing applications [3] thanks to high quality passive components, transparency for NIR and visible wavelengths and their compatibility with CMOS process technology. Unfortunately, no native light sources are available for Si3N4 platforms and the integration of active materials, i.e. III-V compounds,...
We predict that nonlinear imaging is possible in periodic index configurations provided that we use two different segments of nonlinear media with opposite signs of the Kerr nonlinearity with no other restriction about their magnitudes.
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