Silicon photonics is a technology based on fabricating integrated optical circuits by using the same paradigms as the dominant electronics industry. After twenty years of fervid development, silicon photonics is entering the market with low cost, high performance and mass-manufacturable optical devices. Until now, most silicon photonic devices have been based on linear optical effects, despite the many phenomenologies associated with nonlinear optics in both bulk materials and integrated waveguides. Silicon and silicon-based materials have strong optical nonlinearities which are enhanced in integrated devices by the small cross-section of the high-index contrast silicon waveguides or photonic crystals. Here the photons are made to strongly interact with the medium where they propagate. This is the central argument of nonlinear silicon photonics. It is the aim of this review to describe the state-of-the-art in the field. Starting from the basic nonlinearities in a silicon waveguide or in optical resonator geometries, many phenomena and applications are described—including frequency generation, frequency conversion, frequency-comb generation, supercontinuum generation, soliton formation, temporal imaging and time lensing, Raman lasing, and comb spectroscopy. Emerging quantum photonics applications, such as entangled photon sources, heralded single-photon sources and integrated quantum photonic circuits are also addressed at the end of this review.

Nonlinear silicon photonics / Borghi, Massimo; Castellan, Claudio; Signorini, Stefano; Trenti, Alessandro; Pavesi, Lorenzo. - In: JOURNAL OF OPTICS. - ISSN 2040-8978. - 19:9(2017), pp. 093002.1-093002.47. [10.1088/2040-8986/aa7a6d]

Nonlinear silicon photonics

Massimo Borghi;Claudio Castellan;Stefano Signorini;Alessandro Trenti;Lorenzo Pavesi
2017-01-01

Abstract

Silicon photonics is a technology based on fabricating integrated optical circuits by using the same paradigms as the dominant electronics industry. After twenty years of fervid development, silicon photonics is entering the market with low cost, high performance and mass-manufacturable optical devices. Until now, most silicon photonic devices have been based on linear optical effects, despite the many phenomenologies associated with nonlinear optics in both bulk materials and integrated waveguides. Silicon and silicon-based materials have strong optical nonlinearities which are enhanced in integrated devices by the small cross-section of the high-index contrast silicon waveguides or photonic crystals. Here the photons are made to strongly interact with the medium where they propagate. This is the central argument of nonlinear silicon photonics. It is the aim of this review to describe the state-of-the-art in the field. Starting from the basic nonlinearities in a silicon waveguide or in optical resonator geometries, many phenomena and applications are described—including frequency generation, frequency conversion, frequency-comb generation, supercontinuum generation, soliton formation, temporal imaging and time lensing, Raman lasing, and comb spectroscopy. Emerging quantum photonics applications, such as entangled photon sources, heralded single-photon sources and integrated quantum photonic circuits are also addressed at the end of this review.
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Borghi, Massimo; Castellan, Claudio; Signorini, Stefano; Trenti, Alessandro; Pavesi, Lorenzo
Nonlinear silicon photonics / Borghi, Massimo; Castellan, Claudio; Signorini, Stefano; Trenti, Alessandro; Pavesi, Lorenzo. - In: JOURNAL OF OPTICS. - ISSN 2040-8978. - 19:9(2017), pp. 093002.1-093002.47. [10.1088/2040-8986/aa7a6d]
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