title: Nonlinear properties of and nonlinear processing in hydrogenated amorphous silicon waveguides.
abstract: We propose hydrogenated amorphous silicon nanowires as a platform for nonlinear optics in the telecommunication wavelength range. Extraction of the nonlinear parameter of these photonic nanowires reveals a figure of merit larger than 2. It is observed that the nonlinear optical properties of these waveguides degrade with time, but that this degradation can be reversed by annealing the samples. A four wave mixing conversion efficiency of + 12 dB is demonstrated in a 320 Gbit/s serial optical waveform data sampling experiment in a 4 mm long photonic nanowire.
authors.affiliation: Photonics Research Group, Department of Information Technology, Ghent University – imec, Ghent, Belgium. Bart.Kuyken@intec.ugent.be
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