Lossless optical modulation in a silicon waveguide using stimulated Raman scattering

Optics Express

Volumn 13, Issue 5, 2005, Pages 1716-1723

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

^a INTEL CORPORATION   (United States)

^b INTEL CORPORATION   (Israel)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DIODES; INTEGRATED OPTICS; LIGHT MODULATORS; OPTICAL WAVEGUIDES; PHOTONS; PROBES; RAMAN SCATTERING; SILICON;

CARRIER DENSITY MODULATION; NONLINEAR OPTICAL DEVICES; PROTONIC INTEGRATED CIRCUITS; REVERSE BIAS VOLTAGES; STRONG PUMP BEAMS; WAVEGUIDE MODULATORS;

LIGHT MODULATION;

EID: 17444405994     PISSN: 10944087     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OPEX.13.001716     Document Type: Article

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