Roadmap on all-optical processing

P Minzioni, C Lacava, T Tanabe, J Dong, X Hu… - Journal of …, 2019 - iopscience.iop.org
The ability to process optical signals without passing into the electrical domain has always
attracted the attention of the research community. Processing photons by photons unfolds …

[HTML][HTML] Enhancing and inhibiting stimulated Brillouin scattering in photonic integrated circuits

M Merklein, IV Kabakova, TFS Büttner, DY Choi… - Nature …, 2015 - nature.com
On-chip nonlinear optics is a thriving research field, which creates transformative
opportunities for manipulating classical or quantum signals in small-footprint integrated …

Phase regeneration of DPSK signals in a silicon waveguide with reverse-biased pin junction

F Da Ros, D Vukovic, A Gajda, K Dalgaard… - Optics express, 2014 - opg.optica.org
Phase regeneration of differential phase-shift keying (DPSK) signals is demonstrated using
a silicon waveguide as nonlinear medium for the first time. A pin junction across the …

Negligible nonlinear absorption in hydrogenated amorphous silicon at 1.55 μm for ultra-fast nonlinear signal processing

X Gai, DY Choi, B Luther-Davies - Optics express, 2014 - opg.optica.org
Three-photon absorption (3PA) has been observed as the dominant mechanism for
nonlinear absorption in wide-bandgap hydrogenated amorphous silicon (a-Si: HW) at 1.55 …

Non-degenerate two-photon absorption in silicon waveguides: analytical and experimental study

Y Zhang, C Husko, S Lefrancois, IH Rey, TF Krauss… - Optics express, 2015 - opg.optica.org
We theoretically and experimentally investigate the nonlinear evolution of two optical pulses
in a silicon waveguide. We provide an analytic solution for the weak probe wave undergoing …

Naturally stable Sagnac–Michelson nonlinear interferometer

JM Lukens, NA Peters, RC Pooser - Optics Letters, 2016 - opg.optica.org
Interferometers measure a wide variety of dynamic processes by converting a phase change
into an intensity change. Nonlinear interferometers, making use of nonlinear media in lieu of …

Analytic theory for parametric amplification in high-Q micro-ring resonators

S He, N Chen, H Li, X Fan, W Dong… - IEEE Photonics …, 2023 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Optical parametric amplifiers (OPAs) are optical amplifiers based on four-wave mixing
processes, showing great potential for applications in communications, optical signal …

Phase-sensitive amplification of an optical field using microwaves

A Karigowda, A KV, PK Nayak, S Sudha… - Optics …, 2019 - opg.optica.org
We report phase-sensitive amplification (PSA) of a near-infrared electromagnetic field using
room-temperature 85 Rb atoms possessing ground-state coherence. Our novelty is in …

All-optical phase regeneration with record PSA extinction ratio in a low-birefringence silicon germanium waveguide

MA Ettabib, K Bottrill, F Parmigiani… - Journal of Lightwave …, 2016 - opg.optica.org
We report a low-power continuous wave-pumped phase sensitive amplifier (PSA)-based
phase regenerator implemented in a passive silicon-based waveguide. A polarization …

Miniaturizable phase-sensitive amplifier based on vector dual-pump structure for phase regeneration of PDM signal

S Jia, Z **e, W Shao, X Han, Y Su, J Meng… - IEEE Photonics …, 2023 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Phase sensitive amplification is indispensable in promoting applications such as all-optical
regenerators, quantum communications, all-optical analog-to-digital conversion, and long …