Frequency-degenerate phase-sensitive optical parametric amplification based on four-wave mixing in graphene-silicon slot waveguide

<p>The phase-sensitive amplification process of a hybrid graphene-silicon (HyGS) slot waveguide with trilayers of graphene is investigated in this paper. Numerical simulation shows that a relatively high extinction ratio (42 dB) is achieved, because of the ultrahigh nonlinear coefficients, with a waveguide length of only 680 mu m. In addition, the graphene layer provides the possibility of modulating the phase status and gain of the output signal. This study is expected to be highly beneficial to applications such as integrated optics and graphene-related active optical devices. (C) 2018 The Japan Society of Applied Physics