A large amount of work world-wide has been directed towards obtaining an understanding
of the fundamental characteristics of porous Si. Much progress has been made following the …

The basics of four-wave mixing (FWM) and recent advances in FWM microscopy are
reviewed with a particular emphasis on applications in the field of nanomaterials. The vast …

Optical harmonic generation occurs when high intensity light (> 1010 W m–2) interacts with
a nonlinear material. Electrical control of the nonlinear optical response enables …

The real and imaginary parts of third-order nonlinear susceptibility χ (3) have been
measured for silicon nanocrystals embedded in SiO 2 matrix, formed by high temperature …

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

Silicon photonic interconnection on chip is the emerging issue for next-generation integrated
circuits. With the Si-rich SiNx micro-ring based optical Kerr switch, we demonstrate for the …

Excitonic effects on the third-harmonic-generation coefficient for disclike parabolic quantum
dots are studied, and an analytic formula for the third-harmonic-generation coefficient is …

Nanostructuring silicon is an effective way to turn silicon into a photonic material. In fact, low-
dimensional silicon shows light amplification characteristics, non-linear optical effects …

Exciton effects on the nonlinear optical rectification in one-dimensional quantum dots are
studied. The numerical results are presented for GaAs/AlGaAs quantum dots. The results …

Third‐order harmonic generation (THG) plays a vital role in microscopy, optical
communications, etc. Conventional methods of obtaining efficient THG in macroscopic …