On-chip octave-spanning supercontinuum in nanostructured silicon waveguides using ultralow pulse energy

IEEE Journal on Selected Topics in Quantum Electronics

Volumn 18, Issue 6, 2012, Pages 1799-1806

  Zhang, Lin ^a,b   Lin, Qiang ^c   Yue, Yang ^a   Yan, Yan ^a   Beausoleil, Raymond G ^d   Agarwal, Anu ^b   Kimerling, Lionel C ^b   Michel, Jurgen ^b   Willner, Alan E ^a  

^a University of Southern California   (United States)

^b Massachusetts Institute of Technology   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ROCHESTER   (United States)

^d HEWLETT PACKARD LABORATORIES   (United States)

Author keywords

Dispersion; integrated optics; pulse compression; silicon photonics; slot waveguide; supercontinuum

Indexed keywords

DISPERSION ENGINEERING; FEW-CYCLE PULSE; INPUT PULSE; INPUT PULSE ENERGY; NANO SCALE; NANOSTRUCTURED SILICON; ON CHIPS; OPERATING CONDITION; PULSE ENERGIES; SILICON CHIP; SILICON PHOTONICS; SLOT STRUCTURES; SLOT WAVEGUIDE; SPECTRAL BROADENING; SPECTRAL COHERENCE; SUPERCONTINUUM;

DISPERSION (WAVES); DISPERSIONS; INTEGRATED OPTICS; PHOTONICS; PULSE COMPRESSION; PULSE GENERATORS; SUPERCONTINUUM GENERATION;

WAVEGUIDES;

EID: 84866287247     PISSN: 1077260X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/JSTQE.2012.2200032     Document Type: Article

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