Ultrafast tuning of two-dimensional planar photonic-crystal waveguides via free-carrier injection and the optical Kerr effect

Journal of the Optical Society of America B: Optical Physics

Volumn 22, Issue 11, 2005, Pages 2480-2486

  Mondia, Jessica P ^a   Tan, Hong Wee ^a   Linden, Stefan ^a   van Driel, Henry M ^a,c   Young, Jeff F ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

^c UNIVERSITY OF KARLSRUHE   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHARGE CARRIERS; CRYSTAL DEFECTS; LIGHT REFLECTION; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; OPTICAL KERR EFFECT; OPTICAL PUMPING; REFRACTIVE INDEX; SEMICONDUCTING GALLIUM ARSENIDE; TUNING;

FEMTOSECOND PUMP-PROBE REFLECTIVITY; OPTICAL TUNING; PLANAR PHOTONIC-CRYSTAL WAVEGUIDES; SCATTERING MATRIX METHOD (SMM); SECOND-HARMONIC SPECTROSCOPY;

OPTICAL WAVEGUIDES;

EID: 28144431728     PISSN: 07403224     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/JOSAB.22.002480     Document Type: Article

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