Analysis of Raman lasing characteristics in silicon-on-insulator waveguides

Optics Express

Volumn 12, Issue 23, 2004, Pages 5703-5710

  Krause, Michael ^a   Renner, Hagen ^a   Brinkmeyer, Ernst ^a  

^a HAMBURG UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ABSORPTION; LIGHT SCATTERING; LIGHT SOURCES; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; PHOTONS; RAMAN SCATTERING;

RAMAN AMPLIFICATION; STIMULATED RAMAN SCATTERING (SRS); STOKES WAVELENGTH;

OPTICAL WAVEGUIDES;

EID: 10444222629     PISSN: 10944087     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OPEX.12.005703     Document Type: Article

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