Abstract

The on-chip all-optical quantizer is a key functional module to realize all-optical analog-to-digital conversion. It has important applications in future optical communication and ultrafast all-optical signal processing systems. To the best of our knowledge, a novel all-optical quantization scheme based on the cross-polarization modulation effect in a double-ridge ${\rm{a}} {-} {\rm{Si}}{:}{\rm{H}} {-} {{\rm{Si}}_3}{{\rm{N}}_4}$ waveguide is proposed. For the optimized waveguide, the maximum nonlinear coefficient and transmission loss at the probe wavelength are ${2680.5}\;{{\rm{m}}^{- 1}}\;{{\rm{W}}^{- 1}}$ and 2.246 dB/cm, respectively. The simulation results of the proposed all-optical quantizer show that a nonlinear phase shift of 8 can be generated in the 8.79 mm long waveguide when the peak pump light power is 0.8 W. A 16-level quantization and a 4-bit quantization resolution are obtained. The effective number of bits is 3.79-bit, which is only 0.21-bit away from the ideal resolution.

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