• 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