• DocumentCode
    1900735
  • Title

    Ge11.5As24Se64.5 chalcogenide glass nanowires with a nonlinear parameter of 136,000W−1 km−1 at 1550nm

  • Author

    Xin Gai ; Duk-Yong Choi ; Madden, S. ; Bulla, D. ; Luther-Davies, Barry

  • Author_Institution
    Centre for Ultrahigh-bandwidth Devices for Opt. Syst., Australian Nat. Univ., Canberra, ACT, Australia
  • fYear
    2010
  • fDate
    5-9 Dec. 2010
  • Firstpage
    1
  • Lastpage
    3
  • Abstract
    We have fabricated nanowires from Ge11.5As24Se64.5 glass. The loss of nanowire was measured to be 2.6dB/cm for fundamental TM mode. The nonlinear coefficient (γ) was determined to be ≈136±7W-1 m-1 at 1550nm. Supercontinuum (SC) was produced in an 18mm long nanowire.
  • Keywords
    arsenic compounds; chalcogenide glasses; germanium compounds; nanofabrication; nanophotonics; nanowires; optical fabrication; optical glass; optical losses; selenium compounds; supercontinuum generation; Ge11.5As24Se64.5; chalcogenide glass nanowires; fundamental TM mode; nonlinear coefficient; nonlinear parameter; optical loss; size 18 mm; supercontinuum generation; wavelength 1550 nm; Dispersion; Glass; Loss measurement; Measurement by laser beam; Nanowires; Nonlinear optics; Optical waveguides; Glass Waveguides; Nonlinear optics; integrated optics;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • Conference_Titel
    Optical Fibre Technology (ACOFT), 2010 35th Australian Conference on
  • Conference_Location
    Melbourne, VIC
  • Type

    conf

  • DOI
    10.1109/ACOFT.2010.5929907
  • Filename
    5929907