Hybrid silicon slotted photonic crystal waveguides: how does third order nonlinear performance scale with slow light

Junfei Xia; Samuel Serna; Weiwei Zhang; Laurent Vivien; éric Cassan

doi:10.1364/PRJ.4.000257

Photonics Research, Volume. 4, Issue 6, 257(2016)

Hybrid silicon slotted photonic crystal waveguides: how does third order nonlinear performance scale with slow light

Junfei Xia¹, Samuel Serna^1,2, Weiwei Zhang¹, Laurent Vivien¹, and éric Cassan^1、*

¹Centre de Nanosciences et de Nanotechnologies, UMR 9001 (CNRS/Université Paris-Sud), Université Paris-Saclay, 91405 Orsay, France

²Laboratoire Charles Fabry, Institut d’Optique, CNRS, Université Paris-Sud,2 Avenue Augustin Fresnel, 91127 Palaiseau Cedex, France

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Category: Nonlinear Optics

Received: Jul. 12, 2016

Accepted: Sep. 22, 2016

Published Online: Dec. 23, 2016

The Author Email: éric Cassan (eric.cassan@u-psud.fr)

DOI:10.1364/PRJ.4.000257

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