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Investigation of Electric Field Induced Mixing in Silicon Micro Ring Resonators
In this paper we present a detailed theoretical investigation of the electric field induced mixing effect, in which the up and down frequency-conversion processes are obtained by inducing an effective second order susceptibility via the periodic spatial distribution of reversed biased p-i-n junction...
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Nature Publishing Group UK
2017
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5469870/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/28611450 http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/s41598-017-03485-3 |
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author | De Leonardis, Francesco Soref, Richard A. Passaro, Vittorio M. N. |
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description | In this paper we present a detailed theoretical investigation of the electric field induced mixing effect, in which the up and down frequency-conversion processes are obtained by inducing an effective second order susceptibility via the periodic spatial distribution of reversed biased p-i-n junctions. The possibility of realizing a frequency generation process within an integrated microring resonator is demonstrated here, by simulations, in the silicon on insulator platform. Furthermore, general physical features have been investigated by means of a comparative analysis of the frequency generation performance as a function of the input pump power, the linear and nonlinear losses, and the coupling factors. A conversion efficiency of 627.5 %/W has been obtained for the second harmonic generation process. Therefore, an improvement of 4 to 50 times with respect to the straight waveguides is achieved, depending on the cavity ring radius. Finally, for the up/down conversion, from telecom idler to mid-IR and from Mid-IR to telecom signal, respectively, an efficiency of 85.9%/W and 454.4 %/W has been obtained in the silicon microring resonator, respectively. |
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spelling | pubmed-54698702017-06-19 Investigation of Electric Field Induced Mixing in Silicon Micro Ring Resonators De Leonardis, Francesco Soref, Richard A. Passaro, Vittorio M. N. Sci Rep Article In this paper we present a detailed theoretical investigation of the electric field induced mixing effect, in which the up and down frequency-conversion processes are obtained by inducing an effective second order susceptibility via the periodic spatial distribution of reversed biased p-i-n junctions. The possibility of realizing a frequency generation process within an integrated microring resonator is demonstrated here, by simulations, in the silicon on insulator platform. Furthermore, general physical features have been investigated by means of a comparative analysis of the frequency generation performance as a function of the input pump power, the linear and nonlinear losses, and the coupling factors. A conversion efficiency of 627.5 %/W has been obtained for the second harmonic generation process. Therefore, an improvement of 4 to 50 times with respect to the straight waveguides is achieved, depending on the cavity ring radius. Finally, for the up/down conversion, from telecom idler to mid-IR and from Mid-IR to telecom signal, respectively, an efficiency of 85.9%/W and 454.4 %/W has been obtained in the silicon microring resonator, respectively. Nature Publishing Group UK 2017-06-13 /pmc/articles/PMC5469870/ /pubmed/28611450 http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/s41598-017-03485-3 Text en © The Author(s) 2017 Open Access This article is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License, which permits use, sharing, adaptation, distribution and reproduction in any medium or format, as long as you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons license, and indicate if changes were made. The images or other third party material in this article are included in the article’s Creative Commons license, unless indicated otherwise in a credit line to the material. If material is not included in the article’s Creative Commons license and your intended use is not permitted by statutory regulation or exceeds the permitted use, you will need to obtain permission directly from the copyright holder. To view a copy of this license, visit http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/. |
spellingShingle | Article De Leonardis, Francesco Soref, Richard A. Passaro, Vittorio M. N. Investigation of Electric Field Induced Mixing in Silicon Micro Ring Resonators |
title | Investigation of Electric Field Induced Mixing in Silicon Micro Ring Resonators |
title_full | Investigation of Electric Field Induced Mixing in Silicon Micro Ring Resonators |
title_fullStr | Investigation of Electric Field Induced Mixing in Silicon Micro Ring Resonators |
title_full_unstemmed | Investigation of Electric Field Induced Mixing in Silicon Micro Ring Resonators |
title_short | Investigation of Electric Field Induced Mixing in Silicon Micro Ring Resonators |
title_sort | investigation of electric field induced mixing in silicon micro ring resonators |
topic | Article |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5469870/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/28611450 http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/s41598-017-03485-3 |
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