• DocumentCode
    688868
  • Title

    Ultrafast phase-resolved self-acceleration and frequency-chirp in silicon chip-scale slow-light solitons

  • Author

    Zhou, Huimin ; Li, Xin ; Huang, S.-W. ; McMillan, J.F. ; Yu, Min-Chieh ; Kwong, D.-L. ; Wong, C.W.

  • Author_Institution
    Opt. Nanostruct. Lab., Columbia Univ., New York, NY, USA
  • fYear
    2013
  • fDate
    9-14 June 2013
  • Firstpage
    1
  • Lastpage
    2
  • Abstract
    We demonstrate the first soliton self-accelerations and frequency-shifts induced by Drude free-carrier dispersion in 1.5-mm silicon photonic crystals. Picojoule soliton center-of-mass advancement of 2-ps (about one FWHM) and wavelength blue-shift of 0.8-nm are observed via XFROG.
  • Keywords
    elemental semiconductors; high-speed optical techniques; integrated optoelectronics; optical correlation; optical dispersion; optical solitons; photonic crystals; silicon; slow light; spectral line shift; Drude free-carrier dispersion; FWHM; Si; XFROG; cross-correlation frequency resolved optical gating; frequency-chirp; frequency-shifts; picojoule soliton center-of-mass; silicon chip-scale slow-light solitons; silicon photonic crystals; size 1.5 mm; ultrafast phase-resolved self-acceleration; wavelength blue-shift;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • Conference_Titel
    Lasers and Electro-Optics (CLEO), 2013 Conference on
  • Conference_Location
    San Jose, CA
  • Type

    conf

  • Filename
    6833245