Raman amplification and lasing in SiGe waveguides

Optics Express

Volumn 13, Issue 7, 2005, Pages 2459-2466

  Claps, Ricardo ^a   Raghunathan, Varun ^a   Boyraz, Ozdal ^a   Koonath, Prakash ^a   Dimitropoulos, Dimitrios ^a   Jalali, Bahram ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMPLIFICATION; BIREFRINGENCE; LATTICE CONSTANTS; NONLINEAR OPTICS; OPTICAL PUMPING; RAMAN SCATTERING; SILICON ON INSULATOR TECHNOLOGY; WAVEGUIDES; WAVELENGTH DIVISION MULTIPLEXING;

FREQUENCY DOWNSHIFT; LASING THRESHOLD; PHASE MATCHING; PULSED OPTICAL GAIN; SILICON WAVEGUIDES;

SILICON COMPOUNDS;

EID: 21244487470     PISSN: 10944087     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OPEX.13.002459     Document Type: Article

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