Silicon germanium platform enabling mid-infrared to near-infrared conversion for telecom and sensing applications

Authors :: Bogris Adonis
Alexandros Kapsalis
Kamal Hammani
M. Brun
Periklis Petropoulos
Sergio Nicoletti
Dimitris Syvridis
Pierre Labeye
Mohamed A. Ettabib
Source :: 2014 The European Conference on Optical Communication (ECOC).
Publication Year :: 2014
Publisher :: IEEE, 2014.
Abstract: This paper presents the potential of silicon germanium waveguides in the nonlinear conversion of light from mid-infrared wavelengths to the telecom band utilizing four-wave mixing. Design aspects and first characterization results of fabricated devices are presented.

Subjects :: Materials science
business.industry
Hybrid silicon laser
Sensing applications
Near-infrared spectroscopy
Mid infrared
Physics::Optics
Characterization (materials science)
Silicon-germanium
Wavelength
chemistry.chemical_compound
chemistry
Optoelectronics
business
Telecommunications
Mixing (physics)

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