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Area of Science:

Photonics and Optical Engineering
Materials Science (Silicon Nitride)

Background:

Traditional rare-earth-doped optical amplifiers limit scalability in high-throughput optical communication due to restricted optical bandwidth.
Integrated optical parametric amplifiers (OPAs) offer broadband gain but are hampered by waveguide losses in meter-scale devices.

Purpose of the Study:

To investigate alternative waveguide geometries for integrated optical parametric amplifiers (OPAs) to enhance gain.
To explore the potential of silicon nitride (Si₃N₄) rib waveguides for broadband, high-gain OPAs.

Main Methods:

Numerical studies comparing strip and rib waveguides on the silicon nitride platform for Kerr-based nonlinear optics.
Design considerations for meter-long waveguides, including meander-style spiral concatenation and fabrication tolerance analysis for group velocity dispersion.

Main Results:

Rib waveguides on Si₃N₄ demonstrate substantially higher gain compared to strip waveguides at maximum effective length, despite a lower nonlinear coefficient.
Meander-style spiral concatenation addresses the increased length requirement for rib waveguides.
Rib waveguides maintain comparable performance regarding group velocity dispersion fabrication tolerance.

Conclusions:

Silicon nitride rib waveguides present a viable solution for achieving high gain and broad bandwidth in integrated optical parametric amplifiers (OPAs).
This work enables practical OPAs and other nonlinear optical devices, such as wavelength converters and optical sampling oscilloscopes, with improved performance.