• Photonics Research
  • Vol. 12, Issue 3, A1 (2024)
Valerio Vitali1、2、*, Thalía Domínguez Bucio1, Hao Liu1, José Manuel Luque González3, Francisco Jurado-Romero3, Alejandro Ortega-Moñux3, Glenn Churchill1, James C. Gates1, James Hillier4、5, Nikolaos Kalfagiannis4、6, Daniele Melati7, Jens H. Schmid8, Ilaria Cristiani2, Pavel Cheben8, J. Gonzalo Wangüemert-Pérez3, Íñigo Molina-Fernández3, Frederic Gardes1, Cosimo Lacava2, and Periklis Petropoulos1
Author Affiliations
  • 1Optoelectronics Research Centre, University of Southampton, Southampton SO17 1BJ, UK
  • 2Electrical, Computer and Biomedical Engineering Department, University of Pavia, Pavia 27100, Italy
  • 3Telecommunication Research Institute (TELMA), Universidad de Málaga, CEI Andalucía TECH, E.T.S.I. Telecomunicación, 29010 Málaga, Spain
  • 4School of Science and Technology, Nottingham Trent University, Nottingham NG11 8NS, UK
  • 5Department of Electrical Engineering, Eindhoven University of Technology, Eindhoven 5600 MB, The Netherlands
  • 6Department of Materials Science and Engineering, University of Ioannina, Ioannina 45110, Greece
  • 7Centre de Nanosciences et de Nanotechnologies, Université Paris-Saclay, CNRS, 91120 Palaiseau, France
  • 8Advanced Electronics and Photonics Research Center, National Research Council Canada, Ottawa, Ontario K1A 0R6, Canada
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    DOI: 10.1364/PRJ.506691 Cite this Article Set citation alerts
    Valerio Vitali, Thalía Domínguez Bucio, Hao Liu, José Manuel Luque González, Francisco Jurado-Romero, Alejandro Ortega-Moñux, Glenn Churchill, James C. Gates, James Hillier, Nikolaos Kalfagiannis, Daniele Melati, Jens H. Schmid, Ilaria Cristiani, Pavel Cheben, J. Gonzalo Wangüemert-Pérez, Íñigo Molina-Fernández, Frederic Gardes, Cosimo Lacava, Periklis Petropoulos. Fully integrated and broadband Si-rich silicon nitride wavelength converter based on Bragg scattering intermodal four-wave mixing[J]. Photonics Research, 2024, 12(3): A1 Copy Citation Text show less

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    Intermodal four-wave mixing (FWM) processes have recently attracted significant interest for all-optical signal processing applications thanks to the possibility to control the propagation properties of waves exciting distinct spatial modes of the same waveguide. This allows, in principle, to place signals in different spectral regions and satisfy the phase matching condition over considerably larger bandwidths compared to intramodal processes. However, the demonstrations reported so far have shown a limited bandwidth and suffered from the lack of on-chip components designed for broadband manipulation of different modes. We demonstrate here a silicon-rich silicon nitride wavelength converter based on Bragg scattering intermodal FWM, which integrates mode conversion, multiplexing and de-multiplexing functionalities on-chip. The system enables wavelength conversion between pump waves and a signal located in different telecommunication bands (separated by 60 nm) with a 3 dB bandwidth exceeding 70 nm, which represents, to our knowledge, the widest bandwidth ever achieved in an intermodal FWM-based system.
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    Valerio Vitali, Thalía Domínguez Bucio, Hao Liu, José Manuel Luque González, Francisco Jurado-Romero, Alejandro Ortega-Moñux, Glenn Churchill, James C. Gates, James Hillier, Nikolaos Kalfagiannis, Daniele Melati, Jens H. Schmid, Ilaria Cristiani, Pavel Cheben, J. Gonzalo Wangüemert-Pérez, Íñigo Molina-Fernández, Frederic Gardes, Cosimo Lacava, Periklis Petropoulos. Fully integrated and broadband Si-rich silicon nitride wavelength converter based on Bragg scattering intermodal four-wave mixing[J]. Photonics Research, 2024, 12(3): A1
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