Negative Kerr nonlinearity of graphene as seen via chirped-pulse-pumped self-phase modulation

N Vermeulen, D Castelló-Lurbe, JL Cheng… - Physical Review …, 2016 - APS
We experimentally demonstrate a negative Kerr nonlinearity for quasiundoped graphene.
Hereto, we introduce the method of chirped-pulse-pumped self-phase modulation and apply …

Broadband mid-infrared supercontinuum generation in dispersion-engineered silicon-on-insulator waveguide

H Saghaei, V Van - JOSA B, 2019 - opg.optica.org
In this paper, we numerically investigate near-and mid-infrared supercontinuum (SC)
generation in dispersion-engineered silicon-on-insulator (SOI) waveguides employing a …

A silicon photonic data link with a monolithic erbium-doped laser

N Li, M Xin, Z Su, ES Magden, N Singh, J Notaros… - Scientific reports, 2020 - nature.com
To meet the increasing demand for data communication bandwidth and overcome the limits
of electrical interconnects, silicon photonic technology has been extensively studied, with …

Breaking fundamental noise limitations to supercontinuum generation

D Castelló-Lurbe - Optics Letters, 2022 - opg.optica.org
Supercontinuum generation in the anomalous group-velocity dispersion regime is widely
considered to be inherently unstable against input pulse fluctuations. This constraint has …

Towards an analytical framework for tailoring supercontinuum generation

D Castelló-Lurbe, N Vermeulen, E Silvestre - Optics Express, 2016 - opg.optica.org
A fully analytical toolbox for supercontinuum generation relying on scenarios without pulse
splitting is presented. Furthermore, starting from the new insights provided by this formalism …

Analysis of photonic crystal fiber with silicon core for efficient supercontinuum generation

H Sakr, RA Hussein, MFO Hameed, SSA Obayya - Optik, 2019 - Elsevier
Silicon is a widely used material due to its strong properties especially low loss and high
nonlinearity in the wavelength range 1.2–6 μm. Also, photonic crystal fibers (PCFs) have …

Measurement of the soliton number in guiding media through continuum generation

D Castelló-Lurbe, A Carrascosa, E Silvestre, A Díez… - Optics Letters, 2020 - opg.optica.org
No general approach is available yet to measure directly the ratio between chromatic
dispersion and the nonlinear coefficient, and hence the soliton number for a given optical …

Opportunities for visible supercontinuum light generation in integrated diamond waveguides

B Feigel, D Castelló-Lurbe, H Thienpont… - Optics Letters, 2017 - opg.optica.org
We numerically show the advantages of using diamond-on-insulator (DOI) waveguides to
design compact supercontinuum (SC) light sources for the visible (VIS) wavelength range …

Dispersive-wave self-frequency shift unveiled through length scales propagation

D Castelló-Lurbe - Optics Letters, 2021 - opg.optica.org
Nonlinear propagation of light pulses can excite dispersive waves anchored at frequencies
determined by the chromatic dispersion curve. In this work, conditions enabling dispersive …

Design of large core AS2S3 chalcogenide PCF pumped at all-normal and anomalous dispersion regimes for supercontinuum generation

LC Van, BTL Tran - Modern Physics Letters B, 2024 - World Scientific
We design and simulate a near-zero flat dispersion As2S3 photonic crystal fiber (PCF) with a
circular shape to generate a broad and smooth supercontinuum (SC). A near-zero flattened …