Tailoring the Dispersion of a Hybrid Chalcogenide/Silicon-Germanium Waveguide for Mid- Infrared Supercontinuum Generation

Alberto Della Torre (1) , Milan Sinobad (2) , Barry Luther-Davis (3) , Pan Ma (4) , Stephen Madden (4) , Sukanta Debbarma , Khu Vu , David Moss (5) , Arnan Mitchell (6) , Jean-Michel Hartmann (7) , Jean-Marc Fedeli (8) , Christelle Monat (2) , Christian Grillet (2)

1 INL - Institut des Nanotechnologies de Lyon
2 INL - Photonique - INL - Nanophotonique
3 ANU - Australian National University - Department of engineering
4 ANU - Australian National University
5 KIT - Karlsruhe Institute of Technology
6 RMIT University - Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology University
7 LISA (UMR_7583) - Laboratoire Interuniversitaire des Systèmes Atmosphériques
8 CEA-LETI - Commissariat à l'énergie atomique et aux énergies alternatives - Laboratoire d'Electronique et de Technologie de l'Information

We report mid-infrared supercontinuum generation in a silicon germanium-on-silicon waveguide. We show that the dispersion properties of the waveguide can be precisely tuned by controlling the thickness of a chalcogenide cladding layer.

Mots clés: Infrared and far-infrared lasers; Integrated optics; Nonlinear optics; Supercontinuum generation

Domaines: Physique [physics]

Alberto Della Torre, Milan Sinobad, Barry Luther-Davis, Pan Ma, Stephen Madden, et al.. Tailoring the Dispersion of a Hybrid Chalcogenide/Silicon-Germanium Waveguide for Mid- Infrared Supercontinuum Generation. Conference on Lasers and Electro-Optics, May 2019, San José, United States. ⟨10.1364/CLEO_QELS.2019.FF2D.8⟩. ⟨hal-02619502v2⟩