• DocumentCode
    1770744
  • Title

    Femtosecond supercontinuum generation in a silicon wire waveguide at telecom wavelengths

  • Author

    Leo, F. ; Gorza, S.-P. ; Safioui, J. ; Kockaert, Pascal ; Coen, Stephane ; Dave, Utsav ; Kuyken, Bart ; Roelkens, Gunther

  • Author_Institution
    Dept. of Inf. Technol., Ghent Univ., Ghent, Belgium
  • fYear
    2014
  • fDate
    8-13 June 2014
  • Firstpage
    1
  • Lastpage
    2
  • Abstract
    We demonstrate femtosecond supercontinuum generation in a silicon waveguide. Despite the strong nonlinear absorption inherent to silicon at telecom wavelengths, we experimentally demonstrate that the compression and subsequent splitting of higher order solitons remains possible.
  • Keywords
    elemental semiconductors; high-speed optical techniques; optical solitons; optical waveguides; silicon; supercontinuum generation; Si; compression; femtosecond supercontinuum generation; nonlinear absorption; silicon wire waveguide; solitons; subsequent splitting; telecom wavelengths; Dispersion; Optical waveguides; Silicon; Solitons; Supercontinuum generation; Telecommunications; Ultrafast optics;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • Conference_Titel
    Lasers and Electro-Optics (CLEO), 2014 Conference on
  • Conference_Location
    San Jose, CA
  • Type

    conf

  • Filename
    6989080