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On-Chip Fabry–Perot Bragg Grating Cavity Enhanced Four-Wave Mixing
journal contribution
posted on 2020-03-27, 11:38 authored by Shengjie Xie, Yang Zhang, Yiwen Hu, Sylvain Veilleux, Mario DagenaisOptical
microcavity based four-wave mixing (FWM) and its various
applications, such as entangled photon pair generation, have been
intensively studied in the past few years. Compared to the microring
cavities that most researchers have been focusing on, here, we report
the generation of FWM photons with Fabry–Perot Bragg grating
cavities (FPBG) using the Si3N4/SiO2 platform. By leveraging the large, nonuniform and symmetrical dispersion
and tunability of our grating cavity, a unique strategy is established
to compensate the strong normal dispersion of the waveguide and phase
matching condition is achieved on a thin Si3N4 film, which is critical for efficient wavelength conversion. We
develop an analytical model to optimize the nonlinear conversion efficiency
of FWM, and we also introduce tapered grating in the FPBG to reduce
the grating loss from 3.5 dB/cm to 0.36 dB/cm. With a 5.3 dBm pump
power, the nonlinear conversion efficiency is characterized to be
−37.7 dB. Our work demonstrates that FPBG is a promising on-chip
platform for entangled photon pair generation and quantum communication
applications.