Nanowire-assisted microcavity in a photonic crystal waveguide and the enabled high-efficiency optical frequency conversions

Linpeng Gu; Liang Fang; Qingchen Yuan; Xuetao Gan; Hao Yang; Xutao Zhang; Juntao Li; Hanlin Fang; Vladislav Khayrudinov; Harri Lipsanen; Zhipei Sun; Jianlin Zhao

doi:10.1364/PRJ.397116

Photonics Research, Volume. 8, Issue 11, 1734(2020)

Nanowire-assisted microcavity in a photonic crystal waveguide and the enabled high-efficiency optical frequency conversions

Linpeng Gu¹, Liang Fang¹, Qingchen Yuan¹, Xuetao Gan^1、*, Hao Yang¹, Xutao Zhang¹, Juntao Li², Hanlin Fang², Vladislav Khayrudinov³, Harri Lipsanen³, Zhipei Sun^3,4, and Jianlin Zhao^1,5

Author Affiliations

¹Key Laboratory of Space Applied Physics and Chemistry, Ministry of Education, and Shaanxi Key Laboratory of Optical Information Technology, School of Physical Science and Technology, Northwestern Polytechnical University, Xi’an 710129, China

²State Key Laboratory of Optoelectronic Materials & Technologies, School of Physics, Sun Yat-sen University, Guangzhou 510275, China

³Department of Electronics and Nanoengineering, Aalto University, Espoo FI-00076, Finland

⁴QTF Centre of Excellence, Department of Applied Physics, Aalto University, Espoo FI-00076, Finland

⁵e-mail: jlzhao@nwpu.edu.cn

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Paper Information

Category: Nonlinear Optics

Received: May. 8, 2020

Accepted: Aug. 20, 2020

Published Online: Oct. 28, 2020

The Author Email: Xuetao Gan (xuetaogan@nwpu.edu.cn)

DOI:10.1364/PRJ.397116

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