High-efficiency and broadband four-wave mixing in a silicon-graphene strip waveguide with a windowed silica top layer

Yuxing Yang; Zhenzhen Xu; Xinhong Jiang; Yu He; Xuhan Guo; Yong Zhang; Ciyuan Qiu; Yikai Su

doi:10.1364/PRJ.6.000965

Photonics Research, Volume. 6, Issue 10, 965(2018)

High-efficiency and broadband four-wave mixing in a silicon-graphene strip waveguide with a windowed silica top layer

Yuxing Yang, Zhenzhen Xu, Xinhong Jiang, Yu He, Xuhan Guo, Yong Zhang, Ciyuan Qiu, and Yikai Su^*

State Key Laboratory of Advanced Optical Communication Systems and Networks, Department of Electronic Engineering, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Shanghai 200240, China

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Paper Information

Category: Integrated Optics

Received: Apr. 30, 2018

Accepted: Aug. 23, 2018

Published Online: Sep. 25, 2018

The Author Email: Yikai Su (yikaisu@sjtu.edu.cn)

DOI:10.1364/PRJ.6.000965

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