Supermode-based second harmonic generation in a nonlinear interferometer.

We demonstrate supermode-based second harmonic generation in an integrated nonlinear interferometer made of linear and nonlinear directional couplers. We use a fully-fibered pump shaper to demonstrate second harmonic generation pumped by the symmetric or anti-symmetric fundamental spatial modes. The selection of the pumping mode and thus of a specific SHG spectral profile is achieved through the selection of the fundamental wavelength and via a robust phase setting scheme.

Mesoscopic Limit Cycles in Coupled Nanolasers.

Two coupled nanolasers exhibit a mode switching transition, theoretically described by mode beating limit cycle oscillations. Their decay rate is vanishingly small in the thermodynamic limit, i.e.

Discrete photonics resonator in coupled waveguide arrays.

We demonstrate both theoretically and experimentally that discrete diffraction resonance can be designed, fabricated, and successfully probed in functionalized - guidonic - coupled waveguide arrays. We evidence that double-barrier patterning of the coupling creates wavelength-independent angular tunnel resonance in the transmitted and the reflected intensity of light beams freely propagating in the plane of the array. Transmission peaks obtained are associated with resonant excitation of the engineered array bound supermodes of the functionalized array, in agreement with accurate and practical numerical modeling based on extended coupled-mode theory.

High contrast reflection modulation near 1.55mum in InP 2D photonic crystals on silicon wafer.

We report on reflection modulation results near 1.55 mum in InP-based two-dimensional photonic crystals. The fabrication technology uses a polymeric bonding technique to integrate the InP thin-slab onto a Silicon wafer.