• DocumentCode
    1627095
  • Title

    Energy-efficient coherent supercontinuum generation in silicon

  • Author

    DeVore, P.T.S. ; Solli, D.R. ; Ropers, C. ; Koonath, P. ; Jalali, B.

  • Author_Institution
    Dept. of Electr. Eng., Univ. of California, Los Angeles, CA, USA
  • fYear
    2012
  • Firstpage
    186
  • Lastpage
    188
  • Abstract
    Stimulated supercontinuum generation via coherent seeding is numerically demonstrated to produce continua of broader bandwidth and higher coherence than the conventional unseeded case. Implications for energy efficient generation of WDM channels are discussed.
  • Keywords
    elemental semiconductors; light coherence; optical Kerr effect; silicon; supercontinuum generation; wavelength division multiplexing; Si; WDM channels; broader bandwidth continua; coherent seeding; energy-efficient coherent supercontinuum generation; stimulated supercontinuum generation; Coherence; Energy efficiency; Optical fibers; Optimized production technology; Silicon; Supercontinuum generation;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • Conference_Titel
    Group IV Photonics (GFP), 2012 IEEE 9th International Conference on
  • Conference_Location
    San Diego, CA
  • ISSN
    1949-2081
  • Print_ISBN
    978-1-4577-0826-8
  • Type

    conf

  • DOI
    10.1109/GROUP4.2012.6324128
  • Filename
    6324128