Title :
Supercontinuum generation in air-silica photonic nanowires
Author :
Hu, Xiaohong ; Gong, Yongkang ; Liu, Xueming
Author_Institution :
State Key Lab. of Transient Opt. & Photonics, Chinese Acad. of Sci., Xi´´an, China
Abstract :
Based on a kind of air-silica photonic nanowires with large dispersion and high nonlinearity, we numerically investigate supercontinuum generation. Such nanowires can achieve the bandwidth of more than 800 nm in about 4.6-mm length.
Keywords :
Schrodinger equation; high-speed optical techniques; nanophotonics; nanowires; optical dispersion; optical waveguides; silicon compounds; supercontinuum generation; SiO2; air cladding silica photonic nanowires; bandwidth; dispersion; femtosecond pulse propagation; generalized nonlinear Schrodinger equation; nonlinearity; supercontinuum generation; waveguide; Fiber nonlinear optics; Nanowires; Nonlinear equations; Nonlinear optics; Optical pulse compression; Photonics; Scanning probe microscopy; Silicon compounds; Supercontinuum generation; Ultrafast optics; Fiber properties; Nanowire; Numerical approximation and analysis;
Conference_Titel :
Lasers & Electro Optics & The Pacific Rim Conference on Lasers and Electro-Optics, 2009. CLEO/PACIFIC RIM '09. Conference on
Conference_Location :
Shanghai
Print_ISBN :
978-1-4244-3829-7
Electronic_ISBN :
978-1-4244-3830-3
DOI :
10.1109/CLEOPR.2009.5292515
