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 …

Photonic crystals are considered as the suitable structures for creating all-optical processors
because of low loss and high capability in guiding and controlling the light. This paper …

We have proposed an ultracompact all-optical photonic crystal AND gate based on
nonlinear ring resonators, consisting of two Kerr nonlinear photonic crystal ring resonators …

Nonstoichiometric SiN x with enhancing optical nonlinearity is enabled to facilitate the
waveguide microring resonator for cross-wavelength all-optical data processing …

Silicon nanocrystals (Si-nc) is an enabling material for silicon photonics, which is no longer
an emerging field of research but an available technology with the first commercial products …

In this paper, a nonlinear photonic crystal structure consisting of a nonlinear directional
coupler and junctions for the design of all-optical logic gates is proposed. A bi-functional …

The luminescence and nonlinear optical properties of silicon quantum dots (Si QDs)/SiO 2
multilayers with different QDs diameters (2.5, 3 and 4 nm) were investigated by utilizing …

Group-IV semiconductor compounds with intense optical nonlinearity have emerged as a
new branch of all-optical processing materials benefiting from the manufacturing …

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Precipitation and crystallization of Si nanocrystals have been monitored by means of Raman
spectroscopy. SiO x films with different compositions have been deposited by low-pressure …