Title :
Octave spanning mid-infrared frequency comb generation in silicon nanophotonic wire waveguides
Author :
Kuyken, Bart ; Ideguchi, Takuro ; Holzner, Simon ; Ming Yan ; Hansch, Theodor W. ; Van Campenhout, J. ; Verheyen, P. ; Baets, Roel ; Roelkens, Gunther ; Picque, Nathalie
Author_Institution :
Dept. of Inf. Technol., Photonics Res. Group, Ghent Univ., Ghent, Belgium
Abstract :
A mid-infrared octave spanning frequency comb is generated in a silicon waveguide. By beating the generated comb on a photodetector with a narrow linewidth light source the linewidth of the lines is measured to be <;100kHz.
Keywords :
elemental semiconductors; nanophotonics; optical frequency combs; optical waveguides; photodetectors; silicon; Si; mid-infrared octave spanning frequency comb; narrow linewidth lightsource; photodetector; silicon nanophotonic wire waveguides; supercontinuum generation; Nonlinear optics; Optical waveguides; Photonics; Semiconductor device measurement; Silicon; Ultrafast optics; Wires;
Conference_Titel :
Lasers and Electro-Optics (CLEO), 2014 Conference on
Conference_Location :
San Jose, CA
