Roadmap of optical communications
- E. Agrell, M. Karlsson, N. Gisin
- Physics
- 3 May 2016
16 researchers, each a world-leading expert in their respective subfields, to contribute a section to this invited review article, summarizing their views on state-of-the-art and future developments in optical communications.
Dispersion Trimming in a Reconfigurable Wavelength Selective Switch
- M. Roelens, S. Frisken, B. Eggleton
- PhysicsJournal of Lightwave Technology
- 12 February 2008
We experimentally demonstrate dispersion compensation in a wavelength selective switch, and characterize the bandwidth-dispersion product. At a channel bit-rate of 80 Gbit/s, we compensate for…
Slow light enhancement of nonlinear effects in silicon engineered photonic crystal waveguides.
- C. Monat, B. Corcoran, T. Krauss
- PhysicsOptics Express
- 16 February 2009
Comparison of the measurements and numerical simulations of the pulse propagation elucidates the contribution of the various effects that determine the output pulse shape and the waveguide transfer function.
Investigation of self-phase modulation based optical regeneration in single mode As2Se3 chalcogenide glass fiber.
- L. Fu, M. Rochette, V. Ta'eed, D. Moss, B. Eggleton
- PhysicsOptics Express
- 19 September 2005
It is shown that both the high nonlinearity of the chalcogenide glass along with its high normal dispersion enables a significant device length reduction in comparison with silica-based devices, without compromise on the performance.
Slow Light Enhanced Nonlinear Optics in Silicon Photonic Crystal Waveguides
- C. Monat, B. Corcoran, T. Krauss
- PhysicsIEEE Journal of Selected Topics in Quantum…
- 2010
We present a summary of our recent experiments showing how various nonlinear phenomena are enhanced due to slow light in silicon photonic crystal waveguides. These nonlinear processes include…
Low propagation loss silicon-on-sapphire waveguides for the mid-infrared.
- Fangxin Li, S. Jackson, D. Moss
- PhysicsOptics Express
- 1 August 2011
We report record low loss silicon-on-sapphire nanowires for applications to mid infrared optics. We achieve propagation losses as low as 0.8 dB/cm at λ = 1550 nm, ~1.1 to 1.4 dB/cm at λ = 2080 nm and…
Low-threshold supercontinuum generation in highly nonlinear chalcogenide nanowires.
- D. Yeom, E. Mägi, M. Lamont, M. Roelens, L. Fu, B. Eggleton
- PhysicsOptics Letters
- 1 April 2008
High nonlinearity in a highly nonlinear arsenic selenide chalcogenide nanowire with tailored dispersion enables low-threshold soliton fission leading to large spectral broadening at a dramatically reduced peak power of several watts, corresponding to picojoule energy.
Ultra-sensitive photonic crystal fiber refractive index sensor
- D. Wu, B. Kuhlmey, B. Eggleton
- PhysicsConference on Lasers and Electro-Optics and…
- 1 February 2009
We introduce a refractive index sensing geometry exploiting modes beyond cutoff in a selectively infiltrated PCF. We demonstrate a detection limit of 4.6×10−7 RIU and sensitivity of 30,100nm/RIU, a…
Supercontinuum generation in dispersion engineered highly nonlinear (gamma = 10 /W/m) As2S3) chalcogenide planar waveguide.
- M. Lamont, B. Luther-Davies, D. Choi, S. Madden, B. Eggleton
- PhysicsOptics Express
- 15 September 2008
We demonstrate supercontinuum generation in a highly nonlinear As(2)S(3) chalcogenide planar waveguide which is dispersion engineered to have anomalous dispersion at near-infrared wavelengths. This…
Inducing and Harnessing Stimulated Brillouin Scattering in Photonic Integrated Circuits
- B. Eggleton
- Physics
- 31 December 2013
We review recent progress in inducing and harnessing stimulated Brillouin scattering (SBS) in integrated photonic circuits. Exciting SBS in a chip-scale device is challenging due to the stringent…
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