Enhanced four-wave mixing via photonic bandgap coupled defect resonances.
Frequency conversion efficiency via four-wave mixing in coupled 1-D photonic crystal defect structures is studied numerically. In structures where all interacting frequencies coincide with intraband defect resonances, energy conversion efficiencies greater than 5% are predicted. Because the frequency spacings are determined by the free-spectral range, thereby requiring long defects for small spacings using intraband resonances, four-wave mixing using coupled-defect miniband resonances in more compact structures is also studied. Conversion efficiencies of greater than 1% are obtained in this case.
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