Femtosecond Supercontinuum Generation in a Silicon Wire Waveguide at Telecom Wavelengths

We demonstrate femtosecond supercontinuum generation in a silicon waveguide. Despite the strong nonlinear absorption inherent to silicon at telecom wavelengths, we experimentally demonstrate that the compression and subsequent splitting of higher order solitons remains possible. © 2014 OSA.info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedCLEO: Applications and Technology, CLEO_AT 2014; San Jose, CA; United States; 8 June 2014 through 13 June 201