DISPERSION ENGINEERING IN HIGHLY NONLINEAR OPTICAL MATERIALS

摘要

This invention concerns dispersion engineering in highly nonlinear optical materials. In particular, the invention concerns a highly non-linear optical device, comprising a chalcogenide waveguide. In another aspect the invention concerns a method for fabricating such a device. In further aspects the invention is a four-wave mixing demultiplexing and supercontinuum generation device and a method of using the demultiplexing device.