Silicon waveguide with four zero-dispersion wavelengths and its application in on-chip octave-spanning supercontinuum generation

Optics Express

Volumn 20, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 1685-1690

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

^a University of Southern California   (United States)

^b Massachusetts Institute of Technology Cambridge   (United States)

^c University of Rochester   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF ROCHESTER   (United States)

^e HEWLETT PACKARD LABORATORIES   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ENERGY GAP; NONLINEAR OPTICS; SIGNAL PROCESSING; WAVEGUIDES;

DISPERSIVE WAVE GENERATION; FLATTENED DISPERSION; INPUT PULSE; NONLINEAR EFFECT; ON CHIPS; SILICON CHIP; SILICON WAVEGUIDE; SUPERCONTINUUM; SUPERCONTINUUM GENERATIONS; ULTRA-BROADBAND; WAVELENGTH RANGES; ZERO-DISPERSION WAVELENGTH;

DISPERSION (WAVES);

SILICON;

ARTICLE; CHEMISTRY; ELECTRONICS; INSTRUMENTATION; METHODOLOGY; MICROSCOPY; NEAR INFRARED SPECTROSCOPY; OPTICAL COHERENCE TOMOGRAPHY; OPTICS; SIGNAL PROCESSING; TELECOMMUNICATION; THEORETICAL MODEL;

ELECTRONICS; MICROSCOPY; MODELS, THEORETICAL; OPTICS AND PHOTONICS; SIGNAL PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; SILICON; SPECTROSCOPY, NEAR-INFRARED; TELECOMMUNICATIONS; TOMOGRAPHY, OPTICAL COHERENCE;

EID: 84855931398     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.20.001685     Document Type: Article

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