Silicon-organic hybrid (SOH) devices for nonlinear optical signal processing Universiteit Gent
Silicon-on-insulator (SOI) is a promising material system for dense on-chip integration of both silicon photonic and electronic devices. The high refractive index of silicon enables strong light confinement and compact low-loss devices at telecommunication wavelengths. In addition, on-chip nonlinear optical signal processing becomes feasible, because the third-order nonlinear susceptibility chi((3)) of silicon is about 200 times that of glass, ...