Low power four wave mixing in an integrated, micro-ring resonator with Q = 12 million

• DOI: 10.1364/oe.17.014098
• Publication Date: 2009-08-13T15:32:58Z
• Authors: M. Ferrera; D. Duchesne; L. Razzari; M. Peccianti; R. Morandotti; P. Cheben; S. Janz; D.-X. Xu; B. E. Little; S. Chu; D. J. Moss
• Keywords: Four-wave mixing; Q factor

We demonstrate efficient, low power, continuous-wave four-wave mixing in the C-band, using a high index doped silica glass micro ring resonator having Q-factor of 1.2 million. A record conversion efficiency for this kind device is achieved over bandwidth 20nm. show theoretically that characteristic dispersion enables phase-matching > 160nm.