On-chip two-octave supercontinuum generation by enhancing self-steepening of optical pulses

Optics Express

Volumn 19, Issue 12, 2011, Pages 11584-11590

  Zhang, Lin ^a   Yan, Yan ^a   Yue, Yang ^a   Lin, Qiang ^b   Painter, Oskar ^b   Beausoleil, Raymond G ^c   Willner, Alan E ^a  

^a University of Southern California   (United States)

^b California Institute of Technology   (United States)

^c HEWLETT PACKARD LABORATORIES   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DISPERSIONS; LIGHT PULSE GENERATORS; PHASE MODULATION; PHOTONIC CRYSTAL FIBERS; PHOTONIC CRYSTALS; SILICON NITRIDE; SOLITONS; WAVEGUIDES;

ANOMALOUS DISPERSION; HIGH INDEX CONTRAST; HIGHER-ORDER SOLITONS; INTEGRATED WAVEGUIDES; NORMAL DISPERSION; ON CHIPS; PULSE PROPAGATION; SELF-STEEPENING; SLOT WAVEGUIDE; STRONG DISPERSION; SUPERCONTINUA; SUPERCONTINUUM; SUPERCONTINUUM GENERATIONS; WAVELENGTH BAND; ZERO DISPERSION;

DISPERSION (WAVES);

EID: 79958211824     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.19.011584     Document Type: Article

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