Title :
Femtosecond supercontinuum generation in a silicon wire waveguide at telecom wavelengths
Author :
Leo, F. ; Gorza, S.-P. ; Safioui, J. ; Kockaert, Pascal ; Coen, Stephane ; Dave, Utsav ; Kuyken, Bart ; Roelkens, Gunther
Author_Institution :
Dept. of Inf. Technol., Ghent Univ., Ghent, Belgium
Abstract :
We demonstrate femtosecond supercontinuum generation in a silicon waveguide. Despite the strong nonlinear absorption inherent to silicon at telecom wavelengths, we experimentally demonstrate that the compression and subsequent splitting of higher order solitons remains possible.
Keywords :
elemental semiconductors; high-speed optical techniques; optical solitons; optical waveguides; silicon; supercontinuum generation; Si; compression; femtosecond supercontinuum generation; nonlinear absorption; silicon wire waveguide; solitons; subsequent splitting; telecom wavelengths; Dispersion; Optical waveguides; Silicon; Solitons; Supercontinuum generation; Telecommunications; Ultrafast optics;
Conference_Titel :
Lasers and Electro-Optics (CLEO), 2014 Conference on
Conference_Location :
San Jose, CA
