DocumentCode
2850112
Title
Direct measurement of soliton-effect pulse compression in photonic crystal waveguides
Author
Colman, P. ; Husko, C. ; Combrie, S. ; Sagnes, I. ; Wong, C.W. ; De Rossi, A.
Author_Institution
Thales Res. & Technol., Palaiseau, France
fYear
2010
fDate
19-23 Sept. 2010
Firstpage
1
Lastpage
3
Abstract
In this paper, we present for the first time the direct observation of pulse compression in slow-light photonic crystals. A compression of a 3 ps pulse down to 600 fs was observed with an input power as low as 17 pJ.
Keywords
optical pulse compression; optical solitons; optical waveguides; photonic crystals; slow light; photonic crystal waveguides; slow-light photonic crystals; soliton-effect pulse compression; time 3 ps; time 600 fs;
fLanguage
English
Publisher
ieee
Conference_Titel
Optical Communication (ECOC), 2010 36th European Conference and Exhibition on
Conference_Location
Torino
Print_ISBN
978-1-4244-8536-9
Electronic_ISBN
978-1-4244-8534-5
Type
conf
DOI
10.1109/ECOC.2010.5621562
Filename
5621562
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