Broadband parametric amplification in AlGaAs-on-insulator nanowaveguides
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| author | Zhao, Yanjing Kim, Chanju Zheng, Yi Ye, Chaochao Zhou, Yueguang Yvind, Kresten Pu, Minhao |
| author_facet | Zhao, Yanjing Kim, Chanju Zheng, Yi Ye, Chaochao Zhou, Yueguang Yvind, Kresten Pu, Minhao |
| contents | Optical amplification is critical for optical signal transmission. While the emergence of erbium-doped fiber amplifiers has revolutionized optical communications in fiber-based systems, on-chip amplification remains essential for integrated optics. Nanoscale waveguides enhance nonlinearity by several orders of magnitude, making them promising candidates for optical parametric amplification. Using a pulsed pump at 1550 nm, broadband optical parametric amplification based on four-wave mixing is investigated in AlGaAs-on-insulator nanowaveguides. The strong nonlinearity enables an on-off gain as high as 58.4 dB. Meanwhile, the low propagation loss leads to a net on-chip gain of 56.2 dB. With further dispersion engineering, the net on-chip gain bandwidth extends beyond 415 nm, which is 2.3 times larger than previous reports pumped in the telecom band in integrated optics. These results represent the largest parametric gain and bandwidth reported for on-chip parametric amplifiers. |
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| spellingShingle | Broadband parametric amplification in AlGaAs-on-insulator nanowaveguides Zhao, Yanjing Kim, Chanju Zheng, Yi Ye, Chaochao Zhou, Yueguang Yvind, Kresten Pu, Minhao Optics Optical amplification is critical for optical signal transmission. While the emergence of erbium-doped fiber amplifiers has revolutionized optical communications in fiber-based systems, on-chip amplification remains essential for integrated optics. Nanoscale waveguides enhance nonlinearity by several orders of magnitude, making them promising candidates for optical parametric amplification. Using a pulsed pump at 1550 nm, broadband optical parametric amplification based on four-wave mixing is investigated in AlGaAs-on-insulator nanowaveguides. The strong nonlinearity enables an on-off gain as high as 58.4 dB. Meanwhile, the low propagation loss leads to a net on-chip gain of 56.2 dB. With further dispersion engineering, the net on-chip gain bandwidth extends beyond 415 nm, which is 2.3 times larger than previous reports pumped in the telecom band in integrated optics. These results represent the largest parametric gain and bandwidth reported for on-chip parametric amplifiers. |
| title | Broadband parametric amplification in AlGaAs-on-insulator nanowaveguides |
| topic | Optics |
| url | https://arxiv.org/abs/2603.27050 |