Observation of stimulated Raman amplification in silicon waveguides

Optics Express

Volumn 11, Issue 15, 2003, Pages 1731-1739

  Claps, R ^a   Dimitropoulos, D ^a   Raghunathan, V ^a   Han, Y ^a   Jalali, B ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADSORPTION; AMPLIFICATION; ERBIUM; INTEGRATED OPTICS; LASERS; LIGHT EMISSION; NANOSTRUCTURED MATERIALS; PHOTOLUMINESCENCE; PHOTONS; RAMAN SCATTERING; SILICON ON INSULATOR TECHNOLOGY; SUPERLATTICES;

OPTICAL MODES; OPTICAL PHONONS; RAMAN EMISSION; SURFACE TEXTURING;

OPTICAL WAVEGUIDES;

EID: 1342336145     PISSN: 10944087     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.11.001731     Document Type: Article

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