Title :
On-chip supercontinuum spanning 4000 nm in silicon on sapphire
Author :
Hudson, Darren D. ; Singh, Neetesh ; Yu, Yi ; Grillet, Christian ; Read, Andrew ; Atanackovic, Petar ; Duval, Steven G. ; Madden, Stephen ; Moss, David J. ; Luther-Davies, Barry ; Eggleton, Benjamin J.
Author_Institution :
Centre for Ultrahigh bandwidth Devices for Optical Systems (CUDOS), Institute of Photonics and Optical Science (IPOS), School of Physics, University of Sydney, NSW 2006, Australia
Abstract :
We demonstrate an octave spanning, 1.9–6.2 μm supercontinuum generation in a low loss silicon on a sapphire (SOS) nanowire. The supercontinuum is achieved by pumping in the low-loss window of SOS near 3.7 μm.
Keywords :
Absorption; Dispersion; Nonlinear optics; Optical pumping; Photonics; Silicon; Silicon on sapphire;
Conference_Titel :
Summer Topicals Meeting Series (SUM), 2015
Conference_Location :
Nassau, Bahamas
Print_ISBN :
978-1-4799-7467-2
DOI :
10.1109/PHOSST.2015.7248194
