Frontiers in Optics

Enhanced Parametric Amplification in AlGaAs Microring Resonators

Zhenshan S. Yang, Philip Chak, Rajiv Iyer, James Stewart Aitchison, John E. Sipe

Published Jan 1, 2006• 0 citations

Abstract

We show that parametric amplification can be greatly enhanced in microring resonator structures even in the presence of material and modal dispersion, without the need for artificially structuring the nonlinear properties of the waveguides.

DOI: 10.1364/ls.2006.lmf9

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