Comparison of wavelength conversion efficiency between silicon waveguide and microring resonator

doi:10.1007/s12200-016-0576-5

Front. Optoelectron.

2016, Vol. 9

Issue (3) : 390-394 https://doi.org/10.1007/s12200-016-0576-5

RESEARCH ARTICLE

Comparison of wavelength conversion efficiency between silicon waveguide and microring resonator

Meng XIONG¹(

),Yunhong DING¹,Haiyan OU¹,Christophe PEUCHERET²,Xinliang ZHANG³

¹. Department of Photonics Engineering, Technical University of Denmark, 2800 Kgs. Lyngby, Denmark
². FOTON Laboratory, CNRS UMR 6082, ENSSAT, University of Rennes 1, F-22305 Lannion, France
³. Wuhan National Laboratory for Optoelectronics, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan 430074, China

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Abstract

Wavelength conversion based on degenerate four-wave mixing (FWM) was demonstrated and compared between silicon nanowire and microring resonator (MRR). 15 dB enhancement of conversion efficiency (CE) with relatively low input pump power (5 mW) was achieved experimentally in an MRR. The impacts of bus waveguide length and propagation loss were theoretically analyzed under the effect of nonlinear loss.

Keywords wavelength conversion four-wave mixing (FWM) silicon nanowaire microring resonator (MRR)

Corresponding Author(s): Meng XIONG

Just Accepted Date: 03 August 2016 Online First Date: 07 September 2016 Issue Date: 28 September 2016

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Meng XIONG,Yunhong DING,Haiyan OU, et al. Comparison of wavelength conversion efficiency between silicon waveguide and microring resonator[J]. Front. Optoelectron., 2016, 9(3): 390-394.

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Fig.1 Experimental setup for wavelength conversion

Fig.2 Measured (square symbols for MRR and triangles for WG) and simulated (blue curve for MRR and red curve for WG) CE as a function of input pump power

Fig.3 Left axis: CE as a function of pump power for WGs with optimal (solid lines) and fixed (dashed line) lengths and different linear losses. Right axis: optimal WG length as a function of pump power

Fig.4 CEs of WGs of different lengths with and without MRR for different linear loss values. (a) 1dB/cm; (b) 3dB/cm; (c) 5dB/cm

Fig.5 CEs of MRRs (without bus waveguide) and WGs of the same length as the circumference of the MRRs for two different linear losses of 1 and 5 dB/cm

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