Pure-quartic solitons

A Blanco-Redondo, CM De Sterke, JE Sipe… - Nature …, 2016 - nature.com
Temporal optical solitons have been the subject of intense research due to their intriguing
physics and applications in ultrafast optics and supercontinuum generation. Conventional …

A continuum of bright and dark-pulse states in a photonic-crystal resonator

SP Yu, E Lucas, J Zang, SB Papp - Nature Communications, 2022 - nature.com
Nonlinearity is a powerful determinant of physical systems. Controlling nonlinearity leads to
interesting states of matter and new applications. In optics, diverse families of continuous …

Flexible dispersion engineering using polymer patterning in nanophotonic waveguides

PH Wang, SP Wang, NL Hou, ZR Yang, WH Huang… - Scientific Reports, 2023 - nature.com
We demonstrate the engineering of waveguide dispersion by lithographically patterning the
polymer cladding on silicon nitride waveguide resonators. Both normal and anomalous …

Ultra-flat dispersion in an integrated waveguide with five and six zero-dispersion wavelengths for mid-infrared photonics

Y Guo, Z Jafari, L Xu, C Bao, P Liao, G Li… - Photonics …, 2019 - opg.optica.org
We propose a new type of dispersion flattening technology, which can generate an ultra-flat
group velocity dispersion profile with five and six zero-dispersion wavelengths (ZDWs). The …

Bilayer dispersion-flattened waveguides with four zero-dispersion wavelengths

Y Guo, Z Jafari, AM Agarwal, LC Kimerling, G Li… - Optics Letters, 2016 - opg.optica.org
We propose a new type of bilayer dispersion-flattened waveguides that have four zero-
dispersion wavelengths. Low and flat dispersion can be achieved by using two different …

High degree picosecond pulse compression in chalcogenide-silicon slot waveguide taper

C Mei, F Li, J Yuan, Z Kang, X Zhang… - Journal of Lightwave …, 2016 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
In this paper, we propose and design a chalcogenide (As 2 S 3)-based slot waveguide taper
with exponentially decreasing dispersion profile to realize high-degree pulse compression …

Self-similar chirped pulse compression in the tapered silicon ridge slot waveguide

J Huang, MSA Gandhi, Q Li - IEEE Journal of Selected Topics …, 2019 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
We propose a practical scheme to realize high-degree pulse compression in tapered silicon
ridge slot waveguide with exponentially decreasing dispersion. Firstly, we design the …

Increased bandwidth with flattened and low dispersion in a horizontal double-slot silicon waveguide

C Bao, Y Yan, L Zhang, Y Yue, N Ahmed… - Journal of the Optical …, 2014 - opg.optica.org
We propose a horizontal double-slot silicon waveguide to achieve flattened and low
dispersion from− 26 ps/(km· nm) to 21 ps/(km· nm) over an 878 nm wavelength range, which …

Design of all-normal dispersion microstructured optical fiber on silica platform for generation of pulse-preserving supercontinuum under excitation at 1550 nm

IA Sukhoivanov, SO Iakushev… - Journal of Lightwave …, 2017 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
We investigated numerically the possibility of all normal dispersion fiber design for near-
infrared supercontinuum generation based on a standard air-silica microstructure. The …

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 …