Intensity-tunable group delay using stimulated Raman scattering in silicon slow-light waveguides

Optics Express

Volumn 14, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 1064-1069

  Blair, S ^a   Zheng, K ^a  

^a Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

OPTICAL PUMPING; OPTICAL RESONATORS; RAMAN SCATTERING; SILICON; TUNERS;

INTENSITY-TUNABLE GROUP DELAY; LINEAR GROUP DELAY; STOKES-SHIFTED SIGNAL;

OPTICAL WAVEGUIDES;

EID: 32644437736     PISSN: 10944087     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.14.001064     Document Type: Article

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