Title :
Self-Phase Modulation of Femtosecond Pulses in Photonic Wire Waveguides
Author :
Hsieh, I.-W. ; Chen, X. ; Dadap, J.I. ; Panoiu, N.C. ; Osgood, R.M. ; McNab, S.J. ; Vlasov, Y.
Author_Institution :
Microelectron. Sci. Lab., Columbia Univ., New York, NY
Abstract :
We use femtosecond pulses propagating inside a submicron cross-section Si photonic-wire waveguide to demonstrate strong interaction between self-phase modulation and dispersion effects, and provide comparison to a full theoretical analysis
Keywords :
elemental semiconductors; high-speed optical techniques; light propagation; optical dispersion; optical materials; optical waveguides; photonic crystals; self-phase modulation; silicon; Si; dispersion effects; femtosecond pulse propagation; photonic wire waveguide; self-phase modulation; submicron cross-section silicon waveguide; Dispersion; Nonlinear optics; Optical modulation; Optical pulses; Optical waveguides; Pulse modulation; Scanning probe microscopy; Silicon; Ultrafast optics; Wire;
Conference_Titel :
Group IV Photonics, 2006. 3rd IEEE International Conference on
Conference_Location :
Ottawa, Ont.
Print_ISBN :
1-4244-0096-1
DOI :
10.1109/GROUP4.2006.1708224
