title: Amorphous silicon nanowires combining high nonlinearity, FOM and optical stability.
abstract: We demonstrate optically stable amorphous silicon nanowires with both high nonlinear figure of merit (FOM) of ~5 and high nonlinearity Re(γ) = 1200W(-1)m(-1). We observe no degradation in these parameters over the entire course of our experiments including systematic study under operation at 2 W coupled peak power (i.e. ~2GW/cm(2)) over timescales of at least an hour.
authors.affiliation: Institute of Photonics and Optical Sciences and CUDOS, School of Physics, University of Sydney, New South Wales 2006, Australia. grillet@physics.usyd.edu.au
authors.forename: C
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Grillet
authors.forename: L
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Carletti
authors.forename: C
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Monat
authors.forename: P
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Grosse
authors.forename: B
authors.initials: B
authors.lastname: Ben Bakir
authors.forename: S
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Menezo
authors.forename: J M
authors.initials: JM
authors.lastname: Fedeli
authors.forename: D J
authors.initials: DJ
authors.lastname: Moss
mesh_terms: D008027:Light; D008422:Materials Testing; D008968:Molecular Conformation; D043942:Nanotubes / Q000737:chemistry* / Q000648:ultrastructure*; D010316:Particle Size; D012542:Scattering, Radiation; D012825:Silicon / Q000737:chemistry*
chemical_list: D012825:Silicon