Four-Wave Mixing in Highly Nonlinear Chalcogenide Glass-in-Silica Waveguides
- Resource Type
- Conference
- Authors
- Katzman, Moshe; Munk, Dvir; Hen, Mirit; Bergman, Arik; Oksman, Mark; Kaganovskii, Yuri; Rosenbluh, Michael; Zadok, Avi
- Source
- 2018 Conference on Lasers and Electro-Optics (CLEO) Lasers and Electro-Optics (CLEO), 2018 Conference on. :1-2 May, 2018
- Subject
- General Topics for Engineers
Photonics and Electrooptics
Optical waveguides
Nonlinear optics
Chalcogenides
Silicon compounds
Optical device fabrication
Glass
- Language
Highly nonlinear waveguides are fabricated through deposition of chalcogenide glass into pre-patterned trenches in a silica cladding. No processing of the chalcogenide glass is required. Four-wave mixing is demonstrated with nonlinear coefficient of 6.5±1 [W×m] −1 .