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Microwave Photonics Systems Based on Whispering-gallery-mode Resonators
Published on: August 5, 2013
Low power four wave mixing in an integrated, micro-ring resonator with Q = 1.2 million
M Ferrera1, D Duchesne, L Razzari
1INRS-EMT, 1650 Boulevard Lionel Boulet, Varennes, Quebec J3X-1S2, Canada. ferreram@emt.inrs.ca
Optics Express
|August 6, 2009
Abstract:
We demonstrate efficient, low power, continuous-wave four-wave mixing in the C-band, using a high index doped silica glass micro ring resonator having a Q-factor of 1.2 million. A record high conversion efficiency for this kind of device is achieved over a bandwidth of 20 nm. We show theoretically that the characteristic low dispersion enables phase-matching over a tuning range > 160 nm.
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