Comparison of wavelength conversion efficiency between silicon waveguide and microring resonator
Meng XIONG1*,Yunhong DING1,Haiyan OU1,Christophe PEUCHERET2,Xinliang ZHANG3 |
1. Department of Photonics Engineering, Technical University of Denmark, 2800 Kgs. Lyngby, Denmark 2. FOTON Laboratory, CNRS UMR 6082, ENSSAT, University of Rennes 1, F-22305 Lannion, France 3. Wuhan National Laboratory for Optoelectronics, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan 430074, China |
Abstract
Wavelength conversion based on degenerate four-wave mixing (FWM) was demonstrated and compared between silicon nanowire and microring resonator (MRR). 15 dB enhancement of conversion efficiency (CE) with relatively low input pump power (5 mW) was achieved experimentally in an MRR. The impacts of bus waveguide length and propagation loss were theoretically analyzed under the effect of nonlinear loss.