Comparison of wavelength conversion efficiency between silicon waveguide and microring resonator

Meng Xiong (1) , Yunhong Ding (1) , Haiyan Ou (1) , Christophe Peucheret (2) , Xinliang Zhang (3)

1 DTU Fotonik - Department of Photonics Engineering
2 FOTON - Fonctions Optiques pour les Technologies de l'informatiON
3 WNLO - Wuhan National Laboratory for Optoelectronics [HUST]

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.

Mots clés: wavelength conversion; four-wave mixing (FWM); silicon nanowire; microring resonator (MRR)

Domaines: Optique / photonique

Meng Xiong, Yunhong Ding, Haiyan Ou, Christophe Peucheret, Xinliang Zhang. Comparison of wavelength conversion efficiency between silicon waveguide and microring resonator. Frontiers of Optoelectronics, 2016, 9 (3), pp.390-394. ⟨10.1007/s12200-016-0576-5⟩. ⟨hal-01461186⟩