C-band wavelength conversion in silicon photonic wire waveguides

Optics Express

Volumn 13, Issue 11, 2005, Pages 4341-4349

  Espinola, Richard L ^a   Dadap, Jerry I ^a   Osgood Jr , Richard M ^a   McNab, Sharee J ^b   Vlasov, Yurii A ^b  

^a Howard Hughes Medical Institute   (United States)

^b IBM T J WATSON RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BANDWIDTH; CHANNEL CAPACITY; DENSE WAVELENGTH DIVISION MULTIPLEXING; DISPERSION (WAVES); FREQUENCIES; MIXING; PHOTONS; WAVEGUIDES; WIRE;

FOUR-WAVE MIXING (FWM); PHOTONIC CIRCUITS; PHOTONIC WIRE WAVEGUIDES; WAVELENGTH;

SILICON;

EID: 21244491180     PISSN: 10944087     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OPEX.13.004341     Document Type: Article

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