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  • 2017 European Conference on Lasers and Electro-Optics and European Quantum Electronics Conference
  • (Optica Publishing Group, 2017),
  • paper EF_8_2

Two-pulse Interaction at an Optical Event Horizon in Silicon-on-insulator Nanophotonic Waveguide

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Abstract

Nonlinear interactions occurring in the framework of so-called optical event horizons attract attention from the scientific community as the propagation of waves in nonlinear dispersive media has been proven to be a useful testbed for the study of artificial event horizons [1, 2]. Analogue of optical event horizons occurs when an intense soliton pulse prevents a weak probe wave propagating at a different velocity to penetrate through it. The energy transfer inherent to this nonlinear interaction has been pointed as potentially useful for applications such as efficient frequency converters [3] or all-optical transistors [4]. Though numerous studies have been conducted in photonic crystal fibers, the first demonstrations in integrated structures of optical effects pertaining to event horizons have only been recently reported [5] thanks to the use of high quality dispersion engineered silicon wire waveguides. In this latter work, the soliton pump interacted with a weak CW background, resulting in a poor overall frequency conversion efficiency.

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