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
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