Octave-spanning supercontinuum generation in CMOS-compatible silicon nitride waveguides

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Volumn , Issue , 2011, Pages

  Halir, Robert ^a,b   Okawachi, Yoshitomo ^b   Levy, Jacob S ^b   Foster, Mark A ^c   Lipson, Michal ^b   Gaeta, Alexander L ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MÁLAGA   (Spain)

^b Cornell University   (United States)

^c Johns Hopkins University   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CMOS INTEGRATED CIRCUITS; NITRIDES; SILICON NITRIDE; WAVEGUIDES;

CMOS COMPATIBLE; SILICON NITRIDE WAVEGUIDES; SUPERCONTINUUM SPECTRA; ULTRA-BROADBAND;

SUPERCONTINUUM GENERATION;

EID: 85087190999     PISSN: None     EISSN: 21622701     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1364/cleo_si.2011.pdpa6     Document Type: Conference Paper

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