Integrated artificial saturable absorber based on Kerr nonlinearity in silicon nitride
- Resource Type
- Conference
- Authors
- Shtyrkova, Katia; Callahan, Patrick T.; Watts, Michael R.; Ippen, Erich P.; Kartner, Franz
- Source
- 2017 Conference on Lasers and Electro-Optics (CLEO) Lasers and Electro-Optics (CLEO), 2017 Conference on. :1-2 May, 2017
- Subject
- Fields, Waves and Electromagnetics
General Topics for Engineers
Photonics and Electrooptics
Laser mode locking
Optical waveguides
Waveguide lasers
Silicon nitride
Reflection
Optical interferometry
Free electron lasers
- Language
An integrated artificial fast saturable absorber at 1.9 μm is demonstrated in a CMOS-compatible process. It is based on the Kerr effect in a nonlinear Mach-Zehnder Interferometer using silicon nitride waveguides embedded in SiO 2 .