• DocumentCode
    2255301
  • Title

    Octave-spanning supercontinuum generation in CMOS-compatible silicon nitride waveguides

  • Author

    Halir, Robert ; Okawachi, Yoshitomo ; Levy, Jacob S. ; Foster, Mark A. ; Lipson, Michal ; Gaeta, Alexander L.

  • Author_Institution
    Dept. Ing. de Comun., Univ. de Malaga, Malaga, Spain
  • fYear
    2011
  • fDate
    1-6 May 2011
  • Firstpage
    1
  • Lastpage
    2
  • Abstract
    We demonstrate ultrabroadband supercontinuum generation in CMOS-compatible dispersion engineered silicon-nitride waveguides. Our process produces a supercontinuum spectrum extending over 1.6 octaves from 665 nm to 2025 nm using 160 pJ pulses.
  • Keywords
    CMOS integrated circuits; integrated optics; optical waveguides; silicon compounds; supercontinuum generation; CMOS-compatible dispersion engineered silicon-nitride waveguides; energy 160 pJ; octave-spanning supercontinuum generation; supercontinuum spectrum; ultrabroadband supercontinuum generation; wavelength 665 nm to 2025 nm; Dispersion; Optical fibers; Silicon; Supercontinuum generation;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • Conference_Titel
    Lasers and Electro-Optics (CLEO), 2011 Conference on
  • Conference_Location
    Baltimore, MD
  • Print_ISBN
    978-1-4577-1223-4
  • Type

    conf

  • Filename
    5951245