Mid-infrared to telecom-band stable supercontinuum generation in hydrogenated amorphous silicon waveguides
- Resource Type
- Conference
- Authors
- Uvin, Sarah; Dave, Utsav D.; Kuyken, Bart; Selvaraja, Shankar; Leo, Francois; Roelkens, Gunther
- Source
- 2013 IEEE Photonics Conference Photonics Conference (IPC), 2013 IEEE. :380-381 Sep, 2013
- Subject
- Photonics and Electrooptics
Optical waveguides
Wires
Amorphous silicon
Supercontinuum generation
Laser excitation
- Language
- ISSN
- 1092-8081
We demonstrate the generation of a stable supercontinuum in a 1-cm-long hydrogenated amorphous silicon waveguide by pumping the wire with 1950 nm picosecond pulses in the anomalous dispersion regime. The supercontinuum extends from 1460 to 2485 nm for a coupled peak power of 28.1 W.