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Fabry-Perot Bragg Grating Cavity Enhanced Four-Wave Mixing on Si3N4 Chip

Shengjie Xie, Yang Zhang, Yiwen Hu, Sylvain Veilleux, M. Dagenais

Published Jan 1, 2020• 0 citations
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Abstract

A Fabry-Perot Bragg grating cavity enhanced four-wave mixing process with a conversion efficiency of -37.7 dB is demonstrated experimentally on a Si3N4 chip. A thermal-tuning based phase matching approach is also demonstrated.
DOI
10.1364/quantum.2020.qth7a.16

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