Amorphous Silicon Nanowires with Low Two-Photon Absorption, High Nonlinearity and Good Stability

Abstract

We demonstrate optically stable amorphous silicon nanowires with both high nonlinear figure of merit (FOM) of ~5 and high nonlinearity Re(γ) = 1200W-1m-1.

4 pages, 5 figures, 25 references, Australian Conference on Optical Fiber Technology (ACOFT), Sydney, December (2012)

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• Optical performance monitoring at 640Gb/s via slow-light in a silicon nanowire
• Full Band Structure Calculation of Two-photon Indirect Absorption in Bulk Silicon