Title :
Spectral narrowing and optical soliton formation in SOI waveguides
Author :
Zhang, Jidong ; Lin, Qiang ; Agrawal, Govind P. ; Fauchet, Philippe M.
Author_Institution :
Dept. of Electr. & Comput. Eng., Univ. of Rochester, Rochester, NY
Abstract :
We observe, for the first time to our knowledge, spectral narrowing due to the formation of optical solitons inside a short 5 mm long silicon waveguide with sub-picojoule pulse energies.
Keywords :
optical solitons; optical waveguides; silicon-on-insulator; spectral line narrowing; SOI waveguides; Si; optical soliton; silicon waveguide; spectral narrowing; Biomedical optical imaging; Fiber nonlinear optics; Nonlinear optics; Optical pulses; Optical solitons; Optical waveguides; Photonics; Pulse amplifiers; Silicon; Space vector pulse width modulation;
Conference_Titel :
Group IV Photonics, 2007 4th IEEE International Conference on
Conference_Location :
Tokyo
Print_ISBN :
978-1-4244-0934-1
DOI :
10.1109/GROUP4.2007.4347723
