Observation of soliton compression in silicon photonic crystals

A. Blanco-Redondo (), C. Husko (), D. Eades, Y. Zhang, J. Li, T.F. Krauss and B.J. Eggleton
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A. Blanco-Redondo: Centre for Ultrahigh bandwidth Devices for Optical Systems (CUDOS), Institute of Photonics and Optical Science (IPOS), School of Physics, The University of Sydney
C. Husko: Centre for Ultrahigh bandwidth Devices for Optical Systems (CUDOS), Institute of Photonics and Optical Science (IPOS), School of Physics, The University of Sydney
D. Eades: Centre for Ultrahigh bandwidth Devices for Optical Systems (CUDOS), Institute of Photonics and Optical Science (IPOS), School of Physics, The University of Sydney
Y. Zhang: Centre for Ultrahigh bandwidth Devices for Optical Systems (CUDOS), Institute of Photonics and Optical Science (IPOS), School of Physics, The University of Sydney
J. Li: State Key Laboratory of Optoelectronic Materials and Technologies, Sun Yat-sen University
T.F. Krauss: University of York
B.J. Eggleton: Centre for Ultrahigh bandwidth Devices for Optical Systems (CUDOS), Institute of Photonics and Optical Science (IPOS), School of Physics, The University of Sydney

Nature Communications, 2014, vol. 5, issue 1, 1-8

Abstract: Abstract Solitons are nonlinear waves present in diverse physical systems including plasmas, water surfaces and optics. In silicon, the presence of two photon absorption and accompanying free carriers strongly perturb the canonical dynamics of optical solitons. Here we report the first experimental demonstration of soliton-effect pulse compression of picosecond pulses in silicon, despite two photon absorption and free carriers. Here we achieve compression of 3.7 ps pulses to 1.6 ps with

Date: 2014
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