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European Conference on Optical Communication

Coherent excitation of a nonlinear silicon microcavity

N. Dubreuil, Jérèmy Oden, Samuel Serna, Marc Hanna, Charles Caër, Xavier Le Roux, Christophe Sauvan, Stéphane Trebaol, Philippe Delaye, Éric Cassan

Published Sep 1, 2014• 1 citation
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Abstract

Coherent excitation of a microcavity resonance leading to enhanced nonlinear interaction is experimentally demonstrated for the first time. A tailored chirped pulse maintains the cavity enhancement effect, despite the resonance nonlinear frequency shift.
DOI
10.1109/ecoc.2014.6963993

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