Abstract
We demonstrate femtosecond supercontinuum generation in a silicon waveguide. Despite the strong nonlinear absorption inherent to silicon at telecom wavelengths, we experimentally demonstrate that the compression and subsequent splitting of higher order solitons remains possible.
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