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Supercontinuum generation in an on-chip silica waveguide

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Author(s)

Scott A. Diddams, Dong Yoon Oh, David Sell, Hansuek Lee, Ki Youl Yang, Kerry J. Vahala

Abstract

Supercontinuum generation is demonstrated in an on-chip silica spiral waveguide by launching 180-fs pulses from an optical parametric oscillator at the center wavelength 1330 nm. With a coupled pulse energy of 2.17 nJ, the broadest spectrum in the fundamental TM mode extends from 936 nm to 1888 nm (162 THz). There is a good agreement between the measured spectrum and a simulation using a generalized nonlinear Schroedinger equation.
Citation
Optics Letters
Volume
39
Issue
4

Keywords

nonlinear optics, photonics, super continuum, waveguide

Citation

Diddams, S. , Yoon, D. , Sell, D. , Lee, H. , , K. and Vahala, K. (2014), Supercontinuum generation in an on-chip silica waveguide, Optics Letters (Accessed April 18, 2024)
Created February 13, 2014, Updated June 2, 2021