Direct measurement of soliton-effect pulse compression in photonic crystal waveguides
- Resource Type
- Conference
- Authors
- Colman, P.; Husko, C.; Combrie, S.; Sagnes, I.; Wong, C.W.; De Rossi, A.
- Source
- 36th European Conference and Exhibition on Optical Communication Optical Communication (ECOC), 2010 36th European Conference and Exhibition on. :1-3 Sep, 2010
- Subject
- Photonics and Electrooptics
Components, Circuits, Devices and Systems
Computing and Processing
Engineered Materials, Dielectrics and Plasmas
- Language
- ISSN
- 1550-381X
In this paper, we present for the first time the direct observation of pulse compression in slow-light photonic crystals. A compression of a 3ps pulse down to 600fs was observed with an input power as low as 17 pJ.