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Extreme polarization-dependent supercontinuum generation in an uncladded silicon nitride waveguide

Tagkoudi, Eirini  
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Amiot, Caroline
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Genty, Goëry
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June 25, 2021
Optics Express

We experimentally demonstrate the generation of a short-wave infrared supercontinuum in an uncladded silicon nitride (Si3N4) waveguide with extreme polarization sensitivity at the pumping wavelength of 2.1 µm. The air-clad waveguide is specifically designed to yield anomalous dispersion regime for transverse electric (TE) mode excitation and all-normal-dispersion (ANDi) at near-infrared wavelengths for the transverse magnetic (TM) mode. Dispersion engineering of the polarization modes allows for switching via simple adjustment of the input polarization state from an octave-spanning soliton fission-driven supercontinuum with fine spectral structure to a flat and smooth ANDi supercontinuum dominated by a self-phase modulation mechanism (SPM). Such a polarization sensitive supercontinuum source offers versatile applications such as broadband on-chip sensing to pulse compression and few-cycle pulse generation. Our experimental results are in very good agreement with numerical simulations.

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DOI
10.1364/OE.430197
Author(s)
Tagkoudi, Eirini  
Amiot, Caroline
Genty, Goëry
Brès, Camille Sophie  
Date Issued

2021-06-25

Published in
Optics Express
Volume

29

Issue

14

Start page

21348

End page

21357

Editorial or Peer reviewed

REVIEWED

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