Photonic Integrated Devices for Nonlinear Optics

Abstract

We review our recent progresses on frequency conversion in integrated devices, focusing primarily on experiments based on strip-loaded and quantum-well intermixed AlGaAs waveguides, and on CMOS-compatible high-index doped silica glass waveguides. The former includes both second- and third-order interactions, demonstrating wavelength conversion by tunable difference-frequency generation over a bandwidth of more than nm, as well as broadband self-phase modulation and tunable four-wave mixing. The latter includes four-wave mixing using low-power continuous-wave light in microring resonators as well as hyper-parametric oscillation in a high quality factor resonator, towards the realization of an integrated multiple wavelength source with important applications for telecommunications, spectroscopy, and metrology.

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References in corpus (10)

• Optical frequency comb generation from a monolithic microresonator
• 1 Low power continuous-wave nonlinear optics in silica glass integrated waveguide structures
• Octave-spanning frequency comb generation in a silicon nitride chip
• Phase-sensitive optical pulse characterization on a chip via Spectral Phase Interferometry for Direct Electric-Field Reconstruction (SPIDER)
• Parametric gain and wavelength conversion via third order nonlinear optics a CMOS compatible waveguide
• Ultra-low power nonlinear optics in a high Q CMOS compatible integrated micro-ring resonator
• First and second order all-optical integrating functions in a photonic integrated circuit
• Wavelength conversion of data at gigabit rates via nonlinear optics in an integrated micro-ring resonator
• Chi2 and chi3 harmonic generation at a critical power in inhomogeneous doubly resonant cavities
• Degenerate four-wave mixing in triply-resonant Kerr cavities

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• Demonstration of Optical Nonlinearity in InGaAsP/InP Passive Waveguides
• Emerging applications of integrated optical microcombs for analogue RF and microwave photonic signal processing