Photonics Research, Volume. 12, Issue 10, 2257(2024)
Broadband continuous-wave mid-infrared wavelength conversion in high-
Fig. 1. Schematic of the silicon microring resonator (inset: energy conservation for degenerate FWM process).
Fig. 2. (a) Wavelength variations of the refractive index of Si,
Fig. 3. (a) Simulation of normalized FWM CE as a function of cavity length
Fig. 4. (a) Simulation of the transmission of the high-
Fig. 5. (a) SEM image of the fabricated microring resonator and the zoomed-in image of the coupling region. (b) Measured transmission spectrum of the fabricated microring resonator.
Fig. 6. (a) Experimental setup for characterizing the
Fig. 7. (a) Experimental setup for the measurement of the FWM process. TDFL: thulium-doped fiber laser; TDFA: thulium-doped fiber amplifier; PC: polarization controller; DUT: device under test; TEC: thermoelectric cooler; OSA: optical spectrum analyzer. (b) Normalized FWM spectrum of the microring resonator with the pump and signal light on-resonance. The inset shows the normalized FWM spectrum with maximum CE. (c) Measured FWM CE in the microring resonator (green dots) and the 18-mm-long waveguide (blue dots) as a function of the input pump power in the bus waveguide. The solid curve is the fitting results. (d) Measured FWM CE in the microring resonator as a function of the input signal power in the bus waveguide. (e) Measured FWM CE as a function of signal-idler wavelength separation.
Fig. 8. Summary of experimentally demonstrated FWM CE performances in microring resonators.
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Zhiwei Yan, Qiyuan Yi, Qiyuan Li, Guanglian Cheng, Shuai Cui, Lipeng Xia, Fanglu Xu, Xinzhe Xiong, Zengfan Shen, Shuang Zheng, Yuan Yu, Yi Zou, Li Shen, "Broadband continuous-wave mid-infrared wavelength conversion in high-
Category: Silicon Photonics
Received: Apr. 22, 2024
Accepted: Jul. 21, 2024
Published Online: Oct. 8, 2024
The Author Email: Li Shen (lishen@hust.edu.cn)
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