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Wavelength conversion based on degenerate four-wave mixing (FWM) was demonstrated and compared between silicon nanowire and microring resonator (MRR). 15 dB enhancement of conversion efficiency (CE) with relatively low input pump power (5 mW) was achieved experimentally in an MRR. The impacts of bus waveguide length and propagation loss were theoretically analyzed under the effect of nonlinear loss.
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Meng Xiong received the B.Sc. and Ph.D. degrees from College of Optoelectronic Science and Engineering, Huazhong University of Science and Technology (HUST), China, in 2008 and 2013, respectively. Her Ph.D. project is design, fabrication of microring resonators and their applications in all-optical signal processing. She was working as a postdoc in DTU Fotonik in 2015. She is currently a R&D engineer in Light Extraction Aps. in Denmark, working on the surface patterning of more efficient LED.
Yunhong Ding received the B.Sc. degree from College of Optoelectronic Science and Engineering, Huazhong University of Science and Technology (HUST), China, in 2006, as well as the Ph.D. degree from this same university in 2011. His Ph.D. project dealt with micro-ring resonators for lossless all optical buffers. He was a guest Ph.D. student at the Technical University of Denmark between 2009 and 2011, where he was involved in the fabrication, characterisation and system tests of silicon microring resonators. He was working as a postdoc in DTU Fotonik since 2011. He is involved in the EU SEQUOIA project (ref. no. FP7-619626, 2013–2016), and he is the grant holder of national DFF Sapere Aude project (ref. no. DFF–1335-00771, 2013–2016) and FTPproject SimcROADM (ref. no. DFF–1337-00152, 2013–2016). His broad expertise ranges from components design and fabrication to high-speed system demonstrations using those devices. He is currently a researcher fellow at the Technical University of Denmark, working on silicon integrated devices for space division multiplexing and quantum information processing.
Haiyan Ou received the Ph.D. degree in semiconductor devices and microelectronics from the Institute of Semiconductors, Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS) in 2000. From 2000, she joined Technical University of Denmark, where she was promoted as associate professor in 2005. She has been a JSPS (Japanese Society for Promotion of Science) fellow at Meijo University (Japan), and a visiting professor at the Institute of Semiconductors, CAS (China). Her scientific background is in the areas of materials and devices for optical communication, photovoltaics, and light emitting. She has published more than 160 journal and conference papers, and is the founder of Light Extraction ApS.
Christophe Peucheret received the graduate engineering degree from Telecom Bretagne, Brest, France, the M.Sc. degree in microwaves and optoelectronics from University College London, London, UK, and the Ph.D. degree from the Technical University of Denmark (DTU), Copenhagen, Denmark. He has been with the Department of Photonics Engineering at the Technical University of Denmark between 1997 and 2013. Since September 2013 he is with the FOTON Laboratory (CNRS UMR 6082), ENSSAT, University of Rennes 1, Lannion, France. His research interests are in the area of all-optical signal processing for optical communication and interconnect applications, in particular utilizing parametric processes in nonlinear fibres and waveguides, silicon photonic devices, and the applications of micro-resonators and nanophotonic components.
Xinliang Zhang received the Ph.D. degree in physical electronics from Huazhong University of Science and Technology (HUST), Wuhan, China, in 2001. He is currently with the Wuhan National Laboratory for Optoelectronics and the School of Optical and Electronic Information, HUST, as a Professor. He is the author or coauthor of more than 400 journal and conference papers. His current research interests include all-optical signal processing and related components.
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Xiong, M., Ding, Y., Ou, H. et al. Comparison of wavelength conversion efficiency between silicon waveguide and microring resonator. Front. Optoelectron. 9, 390–394 (2016). https://doi.org/10.1007/s12200-016-0576-5
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