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Amorphous silicon nanowires combining high nonlinearity, FOM and optical stability
C Grillet1, L Carletti, C Monat
1Institute of Photonics and Optical Sciences and CUDOS, School of Physics, University of Sydney, New South Wales 2006, Australia. grillet@physics.usyd.edu.au
Optics Express
|October 6, 2012
Abstract:
We demonstrate optically stable amorphous silicon nanowires with both high nonlinear figure of merit (FOM) of ~5 and high nonlinearity Re(γ) = 1200W(-1)m(-1). We observe no degradation in these parameters over the entire course of our experiments including systematic study under operation at 2 W coupled peak power (i.e. ~2GW/cm(2)) over timescales of at least an hour.

