Two-photon absorption and self-phase modulation in silicon waveguide at 1.5 μm wavelength
- Resource Type
- Authors
- Hon Ki Tsang; A. Harpin; J. Drake; I. E. Day; C. S. Wong; M. Asghari
- Source
- Technical Digest. CLEO/Pacific Rim 2001. 4th Pacific Rim Conference on Lasers and Electro-Optics (Cat. No.01TH8557).
- Subject
- Silicon photonics
Materials science
Silicon
business.industry
chemistry.chemical_element
Waveguide (optics)
Two-photon absorption
Wavelength
chemistry
Attenuation coefficient
Optoelectronics
business
Absorption (electromagnetic radiation)
Self-phase modulation
- Language
We measure for the first time two-photon absorption in silicon at 1.5 /spl mu/m wavelength. The two-photon absorption coefficient was found to be 0.45 cm/GW and a /spl pi/ phase shift from self-phase modulation was obtained.