Selective engineering of cavity resonance for frequency matching in optical parametric processes
- 13 October 2014
- journal article
- research article
- Published by AIP Publishing in Applied Physics Letters
- Vol. 105 (15), 151104
- https://doi.org/10.1063/1.4898001
Abstract
We propose to selectively engineer a single cavity resonance to achieve frequency matching for optical parametric processes in high-Q microresonators. For this purpose, we demonstrate an approach, selective mode splitting (SMS), to precisely shift a targeted cavity resonance, while leaving other cavity modes intact. We apply SMS to achieve efficient parametric generation via four-wave mixing in high-Q silicon microresonators. The proposed approach is of great potential for broad applications in integrated nonlinear photonics.Keywords
Funding Information
- Division of Electrical, Communications and Cyber Systems (1351697)
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