Nonlinear Photonics 2014: Introduction

Diamond nonlinear photonics

Despite progress towards integrated diamond photonics1–4, studies of optical nonlinearities in diamond have been limited to Raman scattering in bulk samples5. Diamond nonlinear photonics, however, could enable efficient, in situ frequency conversion of single photons emitted by diamond’s colour centres6,7, as well as stable and high-power frequency microcombs8 operating at new wavelengths. Both...

Focus issue on surface plasmon photonics introduction.

The 6th International Conference on Surface Plasmon Photonics (SPP6) was held in Ottawa, Canada from May 26th to 31st, 2013. This independent series of biennial conferences is widely regarded as the premier series in the field, and the 6th edition maintained the tradition of excellence. This Focus Issue collects several papers related to research presented at SPP6, and although the number of pa...

Introduction to the Topical Issue on Laser Dynamics and Nonlinear Photonics

This topical issue highlights some of the latest research in nonlinear dynamics of photonics devices and novel properties of optical materials that can result from their nonlinear response to light. In this introductory article we comment on some of the challenges in the field. We also discuss and summarize the work presented in the contributed articles to this topical issue and its related wor...

Photonics at APL: Guest Editor’s Introduction

Tapered polysilicon core fibers for nonlinear photonics.

We propose and demonstrate a novel approach to obtaining small-core polysilicon waveguides from the silicon fiber platform. The fibers were fabricated via a conventional drawing tower method and, subsequently, tapered down to achieve silicon core diameters of ∼1  μm, the smallest optical cores for this class of fiber to date. Characterization of the material properties have shown that the taper...