Temperature dependence of the Kerr nonlinearity and two-photon absorption in a silicon waveguide at 1.55{\mu}m
| Autor: | Sinclair, Gary F., Tyler, Nicola A., Sahin, Döndü, Barreto, Jorge, Thompson, Mark G. |
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| Rok vydání: | 2018 |
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| Zdroj: | Phys. Rev. Applied 11, 044084 (2019) |
| Druh dokumentu: | Working Paper |
| DOI: | 10.1103/PhysRevApplied.11.044084 |
| Popis: | We measure the temperature dependence of the two-photon absorption and optical Kerr nonlinearity of a silicon waveguide over a range of temperatures from 5.5 to 300 K at a wavelength of 1.55 {\mu}m. The two-photon absorption coefficient is calculated from the power dependent transmission of a 4.9 ps pulse. We observed a nearly two-fold decrease in the two-photon absorption coefficient from 0.76 cm/GW at 300K to 0.42 cm/GW at 5.5 K. The Kerr nonlinearity is inferred from the self-phase modulation induced spectral broadening of the transmitted pulse. A smaller reduction in Kerr nonlinearity from 5.2E-18 m^2/W at 300 K to 3.9E-18 m^2/W at 5.5 K is found. The increased ratio of Kerr to absorptive nonlinearity at low temperatures indicates an improved operation of devices that make use of a nonlinear phase shift, such as optical switches or parametric photon-pair sources. We examine how the heralding efficiency of a photon-pair source will change at low temperature. In addition, the modelling and experimental techniques developed can readily be extended to other wavelengths or materials of interest. Comment: 9 pages, 5 figures |
| Databáze: | arXiv |
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