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Analytical predictions for nonlinear optical processes in silicon slot waveguides

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Nishit Malviya, and

Alan MickelsonAuthors Info & Claims

Journal of Computational Electronics, Volume 17, Issue 2

Pages 857 - 865

https://doi.org/10.1007/s10825-018-1150-8

Published: 01 June 2018 Publication History

Abstract

Analytical expressions derived for dispersion relations and fields are used to obtain analytical predictions for the performance of modulators fabricated in second-order $$(\upchi ^{2})$$(ź2) and third-order $$(\upchi ^{3})$$(ź3) nonlinear materials filled into waveguide slot of silicon-on-insulator waveguides. Analytical expressions are used to model the electron-optical modulation and Kerr effect on slot waveguides for the theoretical modeling. The results obtained for slot waveguides with second-order nonlinearities are compared with those obtained under the planar-waveguide approximations reported as in earlier work. Also, exhaustive solutions are obtained for third-order nonlinear slot waveguides. This work employs long standing and reliable mathematical methods to develop the computational modal of photonics integrated devices. Moreover, the present work allows one a new perspective on design of various optical devices based on low-index sub-wavelength nonlinear slot waveguides.

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https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1007/s10825-020-01473-x

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Singh R(2020)Structural optimization and parametric analysis of SOI optical slot waveguidesJournal of Computational Electronics10.1007/s10825-020-01473-x19:2(825-839)Online publication date: 28-Feb-2020
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