Title :
Supercontinuum generation in a silicon nanowire embedded spiral photonic crystal fiber
Author :
Gunasundari, E. ; Senthilnathan, K. ; Ramesh Babu, P. ; Sivabalan, S. ; Nakkeeran, K.
Author_Institution :
Sch. of Adv. Sci., VIT Univ., Vellore, India
Abstract :
We design a silicon nanowire embedded spiral photonic crystal fiber exhibiting a flattened, anomalous with small third order dispersion and a high nonlinearity and demonstrate supercontinuum spectrum of 500 nm bandwidth at 0.450 μm wavelength.
Keywords :
elemental semiconductors; holey fibres; nanophotonics; nanowires; optical design techniques; photonic crystals; silicon; supercontinuum generation; Si; nonlinearity; silicon nanowire; spiral photonic crystal fiber; supercontinuum generation; third order dispersion; wavelength 0.450 mum; Bandwidth; Educational institutions; Photonics; Tin; Finite element method; silicon nanowire embedded photonic crystal fiber; supercontinuum generation;
Conference_Titel :
Recent Advances in Photonics (WRAP), 2013 Workshop on
Conference_Location :
New Delhi
Print_ISBN :
978-1-4799-4864-2
DOI :
10.1109/WRAP.2013.6917657
