On-chip supercontinuum generation has attracted a great deal of attention in recent years. Among silicon-based materials, silicon nitride represents an attractive solution for on-chip supercontinuum generation due to its wide transparency window, relatively high Kerr nonlinearity, and negligible two-photon absorption. In this paper, we achieve a flat allnormal dispersion profile in the silicon nitride platform, with a flat dispersion from 600 nm to 2760 nm. Using the proposed waveguide, an ultra-flat (-6 dB) high-coherent octave-spanning supercontinuum covering from 638 nm to 1477 nm can be generated by launching a 250-fs 30-kW input pulse centered at 960 nm. The proposed supercontinuum is of great importance for achieving high-resolution optical coherence tomography and fully stabilized frequency comb sources.
The formation and manipulation of ultrashort pulses on chip would be of great interest to ultrafast optics and integrated photonics. One of the important issues is dispersion-assisted nonlinear interactions of broadband frequency components. In this paper, we show for the first time that a bilayer waveguide for quasi-TE mode produces a quite flat and saddleshaped dispersion profile. Different from previously reported TE-mode waveguides with flattened dispersion, the proposed waveguide exhibits a greatly simplified structure with no need for a high-aspect-ratio slot and has quite small group delay difference in a wide spectral range with four zero-dispersion wavelengths (ZDWs). For the first time we study supercontinuum generation in hybrid dispersion regime, in which the broadened spectrum covers a bandwidth with all ZDWs. It is found that one can obtain greatly improved spectral flatness in supercontinuum generation, with a power variation as small as 3 dB over a bandwidth of <500 nm. Moreover, the proposed waveguides are particularly suitable for low-distortion pulse propagation over a long distance, which is important for on-chip ultrashort pulse delivery.
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