• Acta Photonica Sinica
  • Vol. 49, Issue 2, 0213002 (2020)
Shu-bo HU, Ya-meng XU*, Jia-xuan LI, and Mei KONG
Author Affiliations
  • Department of Optoelectronic Information Science and Technology, School of Science, Changchun University of Science and Technology, Changchun 130022, China
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    DOI: 10.3788/gzxb20204902.0213002 Cite this Article
    Shu-bo HU, Ya-meng XU, Jia-xuan LI, Mei KONG. Simultaneous Low Nonlinearity and High Power Confinement in Slot Waveguides[J]. Acta Photonica Sinica, 2020, 49(2): 0213002 Copy Citation Text show less
    Schematic of the slot waveguide
    Fig. 1. Schematic of the slot waveguide
    The power distributions, effective mode area, nonlinear coefficient and mode profiles as a function of WSi
    Fig. 2. The power distributions, effective mode area, nonlinear coefficient and mode profiles as a function of WSi
    Dependences of the mode profiles, the normalized intensity in the slot and the power confinement factor on Wslot
    Fig. 3. Dependences of the mode profiles, the normalized intensity in the slot and the power confinement factor on Wslot
    Variations of the effective mode area and nonlinear coefficient with Wslot
    Fig. 4. Variations of the effective mode area and nonlinear coefficient with Wslot
    Normalized intensity in the slot for different thicknesses of the silicon arms
    Fig. 5. Normalized intensity in the slot for different thicknesses of the silicon arms
    Dependences of the power confinement factor and the nonlinear coefficient on t
    Fig. 6. Dependences of the power confinement factor and the nonlinear coefficient on t
    Mode profiles in log scale for the air-cladding and the silica-cladding slot waveguides
    Fig. 7. Mode profiles in log scale for the air-cladding and the silica-cladding slot waveguides
    Effect of the slot width on the normalized intensity, the power confinement factor andthe nonlinear coefficient of the silica-cladding slot waveguide
    Fig. 8. Effect of the slot width on the normalized intensity, the power confinement factor andthe nonlinear coefficient of the silica-cladding slot waveguide
    StructureParametersPerformancesRef.
    CladdingWslot/nmt/nmγ/(W-1·m-1)Γ
    * These data are calculated based on the information derived from Ref. [21]. And the missing value for the triple-slot waveguide is due to the lack of structural parameters.
    Single-slot waveguideSilica10050011.2843%In this work
    1209.2143%
    1407.7343%
    1606.6343%
    1805.7843%
    2005.1043%
    2204.5742%
    2404.1242%
    Single-slot waveguideAir10050016.1140%*[21]
    Double-slot waveguide50/506.7748%*[21]
    Triple-slot waveguide50/50/504.66[21]
    Table 1. Performances of the nonlinearity and the power confinement for different slot waveguides
    Shu-bo HU, Ya-meng XU, Jia-xuan LI, Mei KONG. Simultaneous Low Nonlinearity and High Power Confinement in Slot Waveguides[J]. Acta Photonica Sinica, 2020, 49(2): 0213002
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