READ ME File For 'DATASET for Nonlinear properties of laser-processed polycrystalline silicon waveguides for integrated photonics' Dataset DOI:https://doi.org/10.5258/SOTON/D1507 ReadMe Author: Ozan Aktas, Stuart J. MacFarquhar, Swe Z. Oo, Antulio Tarazona, Harold M. H. Chong, and Anna C. Peacock, University of Southampton This dataset supports the publication: Ozan Aktas, Swe Z. Oo, Stuart J. MacFarquhar, Antulio Tarazona, Harold M. H. Chong, and Anna C. Peacock (2020) Nonlinear properties of laser-processed polycrystalline silicon waveguides for integrated photonics Optics Express Description: The excel file contains all experimental and simulation data used for generating Fig.3 to Fig.6. The figures are as follows: Fig. 3 Material characterization using Raman spectroscopy before and after laser processing. Fig. 4 Characterization of the optical losses in the laser-processed poly-Si waveguides. Fig. 5 Characterization of the nonlinear losses. Fig. 6 Input-power-dependent spectral broadening in the laser-processed poly-Si waveguides due to SPM. Geographic location of data collection: University of Southampton, U.K. Date of data collection 2019-01-01 to 2020-05-20 Related projects: Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC) (EP/P000940/1 and EP/N013247/1) Dataset available under a CC BY 4.0 licence Publisher: University of Southampton, U.K. Date: August 2020