Title :
Near-field measurements of soliton fission in nanophotonic waveguides
Author :
Husko, C. ; Wulf, M. ; Combrie, S. ; De Rossi, A. ; Kuipers, L. ; Eggleton, Benjamin J.
Author_Institution :
Centre for Ultrahigh bandwidth Devices for Optical Systems (CUDOS), Institute of Photonics and Optical Science, School of Physics, The University of Sydney, NSW 2006, Australia
Abstract :
We demonstrate soliton fission induced by free-carriers for the first time. Using time-resolved near-field measurements, we directly observe the nonlinear pulse evolution along the 1.5 millimeter nanophotonic waveguide in-situ, a record short fission length.
Keywords :
Detectors; Elementary particle vacuum; Fluctuations; Logic gates; Noise; Photonics; Probes;
Conference_Titel :
Lasers and Electro-Optics (CLEO), 2014 Conference on
Conference_Location :
San Jose, CA, USA
