High-efficiency degenerate four-wave mixing in triply resonant nanobeam cavities

Publication Year
2013

Type

Journal Article
Abstract
We demonstrate high-efficiency, degenerate four-wave mixing in triply resonant Kerr (chi3) photonic crystal (PhC) nanobeam cavities. Using a combination of temporal coupled mode theory and nonlinear finite-difference time-domain (FDTD) simulations, we study the nonlinear dynamics of resonant four-wave mixing processes and demonstrate the possibility of observing high-efficiency limit cycles and steady-state conversion corresponding to 100% depletion of the pump light at low powers, even including effects due to losses, self- and cross-phase modulation, and imperfect frequency matching. Assuming operation in the telecom range, we predict close to perfect quantum efficiencies at reasonably low 50 mW input powers in silicon micrometer-scale cavities.
Journal
PRA
Volume
89
Pages
05839