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All-optical signal-conversion efficiency with a parameter-dependent four-wave-mixing process in a silicon nanowaveguide

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We report on experimental measurements of the signal-wavelength conversion efficiency through the four-wave-mixing (FWM) process in a silicon strip nanowaveguide (SiNW) compared with theoretically-calculated results. The conversion efficiency has been investigated as a function of various parameters, such as the pump power and the pump and signal wavelengths. The measured and the calculated results indicate that a significant variation of the chromatic dispersion (CD) of our test SiNW device among the pump, signal and idler beam wavelengths and a high insertion loss in the device cause a very low FWM conversion efficiency. Our simulation tool can provide a direction for further improvement in the waveguide design by providing optimized CD values for the SiNW in desired ranges of the operation wavelengths.

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  1. Department of Physics, Inha University, Incheon, 402-751, Korea

    Heung-Sun Jeong, Dong Wook Kim & Kyong Hon Kim

  2. Electronics & Telecommunications Research Institute (ETRI), Daejeon, 305-350, Korea

    Jong-Moo Lee

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Jeong, HS., Kim, D.W., Kim, K.H. et al. All-optical signal-conversion efficiency with a parameter-dependent four-wave-mixing process in a silicon nanowaveguide. Journal of the Korean Physical Society 62, 428–434 (2013). https://doi.org/10.3938/jkps.62.428

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