Experimental Demonstration of mid-IR Octave Spanning Supercontinuum Generation in Low Loss Silicon-Germanium Waveguide

Milan Sinobad (1) , Pan Ma (2) , Barry Luther-Davies (2) , Stephen Madden (2) , David J. Moss (3) , Regis Orobtchouk (1) , Salim Boutami (4) , Jean-Michel Hartmann (4) , Jean-Marc Fedeli (4) , Christelle Monat (1) , Christian Grillet (1)

1 INL - Photonique - INL - Nanophotonique
2 ANU - Australian National University
3 CUDOS ARC Centre of Excellence, School of Physics
4 CEA-LETI - Commissariat à l'énergie atomique et aux énergies alternatives - Laboratoire d'Electronique et de Technologie de l'Information

We report supercontinuum extending from 3 to 6μm generated in Si0.6Ge0.4/Si waveguide pumping with ~200fs pulses at 4.15μm. Experimentally measured low propagation loss (0.4dB/cm in range 3.8-5.0μm) and dispersion engineering waveguide allowed us achieving ~5mW useful average power.

Domaines: Optique / photonique; Micro et nanotechnologies/Microélectronique

Milan Sinobad, Pan Ma, Barry Luther-Davies, Stephen Madden, David J. Moss, et al.. Experimental Demonstration of mid-IR Octave Spanning Supercontinuum Generation in Low Loss Silicon-Germanium Waveguide. Optical Fiber Communication Conference, Mar 2018, San Diego, United States. pp.M2J.3, ⟨10.1364/OFC.2018.M2J.3⟩. ⟨hal-02006468⟩