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Nonlinear silicon photonics

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The nonlinearities in silicon are diverse. This Review covers the wealth of nonlinear effects in silicon and highlights the important applications and technological solutions in nonlinear silicon photonics.

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Figure 1: Illustration of a dipole excitation and possible energy level diagrams.
Figure 2: Four silicon waveguide structures and their respective electric field distributions.
Figure 3: Nonlinear silicon light sources.
Figure 4: Applications exploiting the FWM effect.
Figure 5: Time-to-frequency conversion scheme and demonstration of a time lens.
Figure 6: Gas sensor.

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This work was in part supported by the Center for Functional Nanostructures (CFN) funded by the German science foundation (DFG), the European project SOFI and the European project EURO-FOS.

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