Influence of scattering and two-photon absorption on the optical loss in GaAs-Al2O3 nonlinear waveguides measured using femtosecond pulses

IEEE Journal of Quantum Electronics

Volumn 39, Issue 3, 2003, Pages 478-486

  Rao, Soma Venugopal ^a   Moutzouris, Konstantinos ^a   Ebrahimzadeh, Majid ^a   De Rossi, Alfredo ^b   Gintz, G ^b   Calligaro, Michel ^b   Ortiz, Valentin ^b   Berger, Vincent ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ST ANDREWS   (United Kingdom)

^b THALES RESEARCH AND TECHNOLOGY   (France)

Author keywords

Nonlinear frequency conversion; Optical losses; Scattering technique; Semiconductor waveguides; Two photon absorption

Indexed keywords

FABRY-PEROT INTERFEROMETERS; GALLIUM COMPOUNDS; OPTICAL WAVEGUIDES; PHOTONS; TIME DIVISION MULTIPLEXING; WAVELENGTH DIVISION MULTIPLEXING;

OPTICAL LOSSES;

LIGHT SCATTERING;

EID: 0037340933     PISSN: 00189197     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/JQE.2002.808173     Document Type: Article

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