Mid-infrared to telecom-band supercontinuum generation in highly nonlinear silicon-oninsulator wire waveguides

Optics Express

Volumn 19, Issue 21, 2011, Pages 20172-20181

  Kuyken, Bart ^a   Liu, Xiaoping ^b,d   Osgood Jr , Richard M ^b   Baets, Roel ^a   Roelkens, Günther ^a   Green, William M J ^c  

^a GHENT UNIVERSITY   (Belgium)

^b Center for Nano and Biophotonics ^*  (United States)

^c IBM T J WATSON RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

^d OFS LABORATORIES   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

INFRARED DEVICES; OPTICAL PUMPING; WAVEGUIDES;

ANOMALOUS DISPERSION; BACKGROUND NOISE; FOURTH ORDER DISPERSION; HIGHLY NONLINEAR; MIDINFRARED; PEAK POWER; PICO-SECOND PULSE; SILICON WIRE WAVEGUIDES; SILICON WIRES; SILICON-ON-INSULATORS; SPECTRAL COMPONENTS; SUPERCONTINUUM; SUPERCONTINUUM GENERATIONS; WIRE WAVE GUIDES;

WIRE;

EID: 80053958807     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.19.020172     Document Type: Article

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