Acta Photonica Sinica, Volume. 49, Issue 2, 0213002(2020)

Simultaneous Low Nonlinearity and High Power Confinement in Slot Waveguides

Shu-bo HU... Ya-meng XU*, Jia-xuan LI and Mei KONG |Show fewer author(s)
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  • Department of Optoelectronic Information Science and Technology, School of Science, Changchun University of Science and Technology, Changchun 130022, China
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    Schematic of the slot waveguide
    The power distributions, effective mode area, nonlinear coefficient and mode profiles as a function of WSi
    Dependences of the mode profiles, the normalized intensity in the slot and the power confinement factor on Wslot
    Variations of the effective mode area and nonlinear coefficient with Wslot
    Normalized intensity in the slot for different thicknesses of the silicon arms
    Dependences of the power confinement factor and the nonlinear coefficient on t
    Mode profiles in log scale for the air-cladding and the silica-cladding slot waveguides
    Effect of the slot width on the normalized intensity, the power confinement factor andthe nonlinear coefficient of the silica-cladding slot waveguide
    • Table 1. Performances of the nonlinearity and the power confinement for different slot waveguides

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      Table 1. Performances of the nonlinearity and the power confinement for different slot waveguides

      StructureParametersPerformancesRef.
      CladdingWslot/nmt/nmγ/(W-1·m-1)Γ
      * These data are calculated based on the information derived from Ref. [21]. And the missing value for the triple-slot waveguide is due to the lack of structural parameters.
      Single-slot waveguideSilica10050011.2843%In this work
      1209.2143%
      1407.7343%
      1606.6343%
      1805.7843%
      2005.1043%
      2204.5742%
      2404.1242%
      Single-slot waveguideAir10050016.1140%*[21]
      Double-slot waveguide50/506.7748%*[21]
      Triple-slot waveguide50/50/504.66[21]
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    Shu-bo HU, Ya-meng XU, Jia-xuan LI, Mei KONG. Simultaneous Low Nonlinearity and High Power Confinement in Slot Waveguides[J]. Acta Photonica Sinica, 2020, 49(2): 0213002

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    Paper Information

    Received: Sep. 20, 2019

    Accepted: Dec. 13, 2019

    Published Online: Mar. 19, 2020

    The Author Email: XU Ya-meng (yamengxu@cust.edu.cn)

    DOI:10.3788/gzxb20204902.0213002

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