Dispersion tailoring and soliton propagation in silicon waveguides
- 1 May 2006
- journal article
- Published by Optica Publishing Group in Optics Letters
- Vol. 31 (9) , 1295-1297
- https://doi.org/10.1364/ol.31.001295
Abstract
The dispersive properties of silicon-on-insulator (SOI) waveguides are studied by using the effective-index method. Extensive calculations indicate that an SOI waveguide can be designed to have its zero-dispersion wavelength near with reasonable device dimensions. Numerical simulations show that soliton-like pulse propagation is achievable in such a waveguide in the spectral region at approximately . The concept of path-averaged solitons is used to minimize the impact of linear loss and two-photon absorption.
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