Net continuous wave optical gain in a low loss silicon-on-insulator waveguide by stimulated Raman scattering

Optics Express

Volumn 13, Issue 2, 2005, Pages 519-525

  Jones, Richard ^a   Rong, Haisheng ^a   Liu, Ansheng ^a   Fang, Alexander W ^a   Paniccia, Mario J ^a   Hak, Dani ^b   Cohen, Oded ^b  

^a INTEL CORPORATION   (United States)

^b INTEL CORPORATION   (Israel)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMPLIFICATION; INTEGRATED OPTICS; LIGHT ABSORPTION; LIGHT AMPLIFIERS; NONLINEAR OPTICS; OPTICAL DEVICES; PHOTOLITHOGRAPHY; PHOTONS; RAMAN SCATTERING; REACTIVE ION ETCHING; SILICON ON INSULATOR TECHNOLOGY;

FREE CARRIER ABSORPTION (FCA); OPTICAL GAIN; PHOTOLITHOGRAPHIC PATTERNING; SILICON-ON-INSULATOR WAVEGUIDE;

OPTICAL WAVEGUIDES;

EID: 13544270152     PISSN: 10944087     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OPEX.13.000519     Document Type: Article

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