Nonlinear self-distortion of picosecond optical pulses in silicon wire waveguides

Author

Liang, T.K. ; Nunes, L.R. ; Tsuchiya, M. ; Abedin, K.S. ; Miyazaki, T. ; Van Thourhout, D. ; Bogaerts, W. ; Dumon, P. ; Baets, R. ; Tsang, H.K.

Author_Institution

Basic & Adv. Res. Dept., Nat. Inst. of Inf. & Commun. Technol., Koganei

fYear

2006

fDate

21-26 May 2006

Firstpage

1

Lastpage

2

Abstract

We experimentally observed the self-distortion of picosecond pulses propagating in silicon wire waveguides. The asymmetry of output pulse shape was due to two-photon absorption generated free carriers within the pulse duration.

Keywords

elemental semiconductors; high-speed optical techniques; integrated optics; nonlinear optics; optical distortion; optical pulse shaping; optical waveguides; silicon; two-photon processes; Si; free carriers; nonlinear self-distortion; output pulse shape asymmetry; picosecond optical pulses; silicon wire waveguides; two-photon absorption; Nonlinear optics; Optical distortion; Optical pulse generation; Optical pulse shaping; Optical pulses; Optical waveguides; Pulse measurements; Silicon; Ultrafast optics; Wire; (190.4180) Multiphoton processes; (190.5970) Semiconductor nonlinear optics; (230.7370) Waveguides;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Lasers and Electro-Optics, 2006 and 2006 Quantum Electronics and Laser Science Conference. CLEO/QELS 2006. Conference on

Conference_Location

Long Beach, CA

Print_ISBN

978-1-55752-813-1

Electronic_ISBN

978-1-55752-813-1

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/CLEO.2006.4628501

Filename

4628501