Title :
Silicon photonic crystal fiber
Author :
Yaman, Fatih ; Xie, Xiaobo ; Wang, Ting ; Li, Guifang
Author_Institution :
Coll. of Opt. & Photonics/CREOL&FPCE, Univ. of Central Florida, Orlando, FL, USA
Abstract :
Silica photonic crystal fibers are converted to silicon using magnesiothermic reduction. Silicon fibers have the advantage of having a broadband transmission window extending into the midinfrared and extremely large nonlinearity.
Keywords :
elemental semiconductors; holey fibres; infrared sources; optical solitons; optical transmitters; photonic crystals; silicon; Si; magnesiothermic reduction; midinfrared broadband transmission; optical nonlinearity; silicon photonic crystal fiber; Broadband communication; Laboratories; Nonlinear optics; Photonic crystal fibers; Silicon; Silicon compounds; USA Councils;
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
DOI :
10.1109/ECOC.2010.5621566
