Publications associées à Observation of Second Harmonic and Sum Frequency in an Optically Poled Si3N4 Waveguide

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Linear Electro-optic Effect in Silicon Nitride Waveguides Enabled by Electric-Field Poling

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A light pulse source (100), being adapted for generating repetitive optical pulses (1), comprises a continuous wave cw laser device (10) being arranged for providing cw laser light (2), an optical waveguide (20) being optically coupled with the cw laser de ...

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Broadband Quasi-Phase-Matching in All-Optically Poled Stoichiometric Silicon Nitride Waveguides

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We show how broadband (>30nm) quasi-phase matching in all-optically poled Si3N4 waveguides provides a platform for efficient sum-frequency generation, and for femtosecond pulse processing such as fcEo detection without the need for group velocity engineeri ...

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Peculiarities of second harmonic generation with chirped femtosecond pulses at high conversion efficiency

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Frequency doubling of an infrared laser radiation in non-linear optical crystals is a widely used technique to obtain light in the visible range. The second harmonic generation process is influenced by several well-known parameters. In this article we stud ...

ELSEVIER2020

Second- and third-order nonlinear wavelength conversion in an all-optically poled Si3N4 waveguide

Tobias Kippenberg, Camille Sophie Brès, Martin Hubert Peter Pfeiffer, Davide Grassani

Silicon nitride (Si3N4) is commonly employed to integrate third-order nonlinear optical processes on a chip. Its amorphous state, however, inhibits significant second-order nonlinear response. Recently, second-harmonic generation enhancement has been obser ...

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