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Photonics Research, Volume. 12, Issue 3, A1(2024)

Fully integrated and broadband Si-rich silicon nitride wavelength converter based on Bragg scattering intermodal four-wave mixing

Valerio Vitali1,2、*, Thalía Domínguez Bucio1, Hao Liu1, José Manuel Luque González3, Francisco Jurado-Romero3, Alejandro Ortega-Moñux3, Glenn Churchill1, James C. Gates1, James Hillier4,5, Nikolaos Kalfagiannis4,6, Daniele Melati7, Jens H. Schmid8, Ilaria Cristiani2, Pavel Cheben8, J. Gonzalo Wangüemert-Pérez3, Íñigo Molina-Fernández3, Frederic Gardes1, Cosimo Lacava2, and Periklis Petropoulos1
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  • 1Optoelectronics Research Centre, University of Southampton, Southampton SO17 1BJ, UK
  • 2Electrical, Computer and Biomedical Engineering Department, University of Pavia, Pavia 27100, Italy
  • 3Telecommunication Research Institute (TELMA), Universidad de Málaga, CEI Andalucía TECH, E.T.S.I. Telecomunicación, 29010 Málaga, Spain
  • 4School of Science and Technology, Nottingham Trent University, Nottingham NG11 8NS, UK
  • 5Department of Electrical Engineering, Eindhoven University of Technology, Eindhoven 5600 MB, The Netherlands
  • 6Department of Materials Science and Engineering, University of Ioannina, Ioannina 45110, Greece
  • 7Centre de Nanosciences et de Nanotechnologies, Université Paris-Saclay, CNRS, 91120 Palaiseau, France
  • 8Advanced Electronics and Photonics Research Center, National Research Council Canada, Ottawa, Ontario K1A 0R6, Canada
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    Valerio Vitali, Thalía Domínguez Bucio, Hao Liu, José Manuel Luque González, Francisco Jurado-Romero, Alejandro Ortega-Moñux, Glenn Churchill, James C. Gates, James Hillier, Nikolaos Kalfagiannis, Daniele Melati, Jens H. Schmid, Ilaria Cristiani, Pavel Cheben, J. Gonzalo Wangüemert-Pérez, Íñigo Molina-Fernández, Frederic Gardes, Cosimo Lacava, Periklis Petropoulos. Fully integrated and broadband Si-rich silicon nitride wavelength converter based on Bragg scattering intermodal four-wave mixing[J]. Photonics Research, 2024, 12(3): A1

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    Special Issue: ADVANCING INTEGRATED PHOTONICS: FROM DEVICE INNOVATION TO SYSTEM INTEGRATION

    Received: Sep. 22, 2023

    Accepted: Nov. 13, 2023

    Published Online: Feb. 27, 2024

    The Author Email: Valerio Vitali (valerio.vitali@unipv.it)

    DOI:10.1364/PRJ.506691

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