Focus Serial: Frontiers of Nonlinear Optics Several kinds of nonlinear optical effects have
been observed in recent years using silicon waveguides, and their device applications are …

Group IV photonics hold great potential for nonlinear applications in the near-and mid-
infrared (IR) wavelength ranges, exhibiting strong nonlinearities in bulk materials, high index …

We review recent progress in inducing and harnessing stimulated Brillouin scattering (SBS)
in integrated photonic circuits. Exciting SBS in a chip-scale device is challenging due to the …

Focus Serial: Frontiers of Nonlinear Optics We review recent research on nonlinear optical
interactions in waveguides with sub-micron transverse dimensions, which are termed …

We demonstrate highly broad-band frequency conversion via four-wave mixing in silicon
nanowaveguides. Through appropriate engineering of the waveguide dimensions …

Supercontinuum (SC) has opened up possibilities for numerous applications in optical
communications, signal processing, metrology, and spectroscopy. Supercontinuum …

The authors present the detailed characterization of the wavelength dependence of two-
photon absorption and the Kerr nonlinearity in silicon over a spectral range extending from …

The nonlinear optics of Si photonic wires is discussed. The distinctive features of these
waveguides are that they have extremely large third-order susceptibility χ^(3) and dispersive …

We demonstrate reduction of the free-carrier lifetime in a silicon nanowaveguide from 3 ns to
12.2 ps by applying a reverse bias across an integrated pin diode. This observation …

Solitons are nonlinear waves that exhibit invariant or recurrent behaviour as they propagate.
Precise control of dispersion and nonlinear effects governs soliton propagation and, through …