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NATURE COMMUNICATIONS
Volume 5, Issue -, Pages -Publisher
NATURE PUBLISHING GROUP
DOI: 10.1038/ncomms4160
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- Center of Excellence CUDOS [CE110001018]
- Australian Research Council (ARC) [FL120100029, DECRA-DE120102069]
- EPSRC UK Silicon Photonics [EP/F001428/1]
- NKBRSF [2010CB923200]
- NNSFC [11204386]
- GNSF [S2012040007812]
- Tecnalia International Fellowship for Experienced Researchers
- Tecnalia Research and Innovation
- European Commission
- Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council [EP/F001428/1] Funding Source: researchfish
- EPSRC [EP/F001428/1] Funding Source: UKRI
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Solitons are nonlinear waves present in diverse physical systems including plasmas, water surfaces and optics. In silicon, the presence of two photon absorption and accompanying free carriers strongly perturb the canonical dynamics of optical solitons. Here we report the first experimental demonstration of soliton-effect pulse compression of picosecond pulses in silicon, despite two photon absorption and free carriers. Here we achieve compression of 3.7 ps pulses to 1.6 ps with <10 pJ energy. We demonstrate a B1-ps free-carrier-induced pulse acceleration and show that picosecond input pulses are critical to these observations. These experiments are enabled by a dispersion-engineered slow-light photonic crystal waveguide and an ultra-sensitive frequency-resolved electrical gating technique to detect the ultralow energies in the nanostructured device. Strong agreement with a nonlinear Schrodinger model confirms the measurements. These results further our understanding of nonlinear waves in silicon and open the way to soliton-based functionalities in complementary metal-oxide-semiconductor-compatible platforms.
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