Ultrafast Kerr-induced all-optical wavelength conversion in silicon waveguides using 1.55 mu m femtosecond pulses

作者:Dekker R*; Driessen A; Wahlbrink T; Moormann C; Niehusmann J; Foerst M
来源:Optics Express, 2006, 14(18): 8336-8346.
DOI:10.1364/OE.14.008336

摘要

The propagation of 300 femtosecond optical pulses in Silicon-on Insulator waveguides has been studied by means of a pump-probe set-up. The ultrafast pulses allowed the observation of large Kerr-induced red and blue shifts (9nm and 15nm, respectively) of the probe signal depending on the delay between pump (1554nm) and probe (1683nm) pulses. A numerical model taking into account the Kerr effect, Two Photon Absorption and Free Carrier Absorption is presented and provides good agreement with our experimental data and data in literature. A microring resonator based device is proposed that exploits the observed wavelength shift for sub-picosecond all-optical switching.

  • 出版日期2006-9-4