Demonstration of the DC-Kerr Effect in Silicon-Rich Nitride

Alex Friedman, Hani Nejadriahi, Rajat Sharma +1

We demonstrate the DC-Kerr effect in PECVD Silicon-rich Nitride (SRN) and use it to demonstrate a third order nonlinear susceptibility, \c{hi}^((3)), as high as (6 +/- 0.58)x10-19…