Title :
Tailored anomalous group-velocity dispersion in silicon waveguides
Author :
Turner, Amy C. ; Manolatou, Christina ; Schmidt, Bradley S. ; Lipson, Michal ; Foster, Mark A. ; Okawachi, Yoshitomo ; Gaeta, Alexander L.
Author_Institution :
Sch. of Electr. & Comput. Eng., Cornell Univ., Ithaca, NY
Abstract :
We present the first experimental demonstration of anomalous group-velocity dispersion in cover a wide bandwidth. We also introduce a method to tailor the group-velocity dispersion in the waveguides from -2000 to 1500 ps/(nmmiddotkm).
Keywords :
elemental semiconductors; nanophotonics; optical dispersion; optical waveguides; silicon; Si; anomalous group-velocity dispersion; nanophotonic devices; silicon waveguides; Bandwidth; Crystalline materials; Etching; Optical pulses; Optical solitons; Optical waveguides; Physics computing; Plasma measurements; Silicon compounds; Wavelength measurement; (060.5530) Pulse propagation and solitons; (130.2790) Guided waves; (230.7380) Waveguides, channeled;
Conference_Titel :
Lasers and Electro-Optics, 2006 and 2006 Quantum Electronics and Laser Science Conference. CLEO/QELS 2006. Conference on
Conference_Location :
Long Beach, CA
Print_ISBN :
978-1-55752-813-1
Electronic_ISBN :
978-1-55752-813-1
DOI :
10.1109/CLEO.2006.4628293
