Telecom to mid-infrared spanning supercontinuum generation in hydrogenated amorphous silicon waveguides using a Thulium doped fiber laser pump source

Optics Express

Volumn 21, Issue 26, 2013, Pages 32032-32039

  Dave, Utsav D ^a   Uvin, Sarah ^a   Kuyken, Bart ^a   Selvaraja, Shankar ^b   Leo, Francois ^a   Roelkens, Gunther ^a  

^a GHENT UNIVERSITY   (Belgium)

^b IMEC   (Belgium)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FIBER LASERS; HYDROGENATION; INFRARED DEVICES; SUPERCONTINUUM GENERATION; THULIUM;

IMAGINARY PARTS; MIDINFRARED; NON-LINEAR PARAMETERS; PICO-SECOND PULSE; PUMP SOURCES; SUPER CONTINUUM; TELECOM BANDS; THULIUM-DOPED FIBERS;

OPTICAL WAVEGUIDES;

EID: 84891749787     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.21.032032     Document Type: Article

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