Supercontinuum (SC) has opened up possibilities for numerous applications in optical
communications, signal processing, metrology, and spectroscopy. Supercontinuum …

In its 60 years of existence, the field of nonlinear optics has gained momentum especially
over the past two decades thanks to major breakthroughs in material science and …

We demonstrate the generation of a supercontinuum in a 2 cm long silicon wire by pumping
the wire with mid-infrared picosecond pulses in the anomalous dispersion regime. The …

We demonstrate optically stable amorphous silicon nanowires with both high nonlinear
figure of merit (FOM) of~ 5 and high nonlinearity Re (γ)= 1200W^− 1m^− 1. We observe no …

Glass-glad silicon core fibers are attracting considerable attention for use in nonlinear
applications due to their tight light confinement and intrinsically high third-order …

Organic materials possess many key attributes that make them suitable for exploitation in all-
optical signal processing applications including facile tunability of their optical properties …

We propose hydrogenated amorphous silicon nanowires as a platform for nonlinear optics
in the telecommunication wavelength range. Extraction of the nonlinear parameter of these …

We propose a new strip/slot hybrid waveguide with double slots, which exhibits a flat and
low dispersion over a 1098-nm bandwidth with four zero-dispersion wavelengths …

A pulsed mid-infrared pump at λ= 2173? nm is used to demonstrate wideband optical
parametric gain in a low-loss 2? cm long silicon photonic wire. Using dispersion engineering …

Group-IV semiconductor compounds with intense optical nonlinearity have emerged as a
new branch of all-optical processing materials benefiting from the manufacturing …