Tailored anomalous group-velocity dispersion in silicon channel waveguides

Optics Express

Volumn 14, Issue 10, 2006, Pages 4357-4362

  Turner, Amy C ^a   Manolatou, Christina ^a   Schmidt, Bradley S ^a   Lipson, Michal ^a   Foster, Mark A ^a   Sharping, Jay E ^a   Gaeta, Alexander L ^a  

^a School of Operations Research and Industrial Engineering   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BANDWIDTH; OPTICAL MATERIALS; OPTICAL PROPERTIES; SILICON; TELECOMMUNICATION SYSTEMS;

CROSS-SECTIONAL SIZE; GROUP-VELOCITY DISPERSION (GVD); SILICON CHANNEL WAVEGUIDES;

OPTICAL WAVEGUIDES;

EID: 33646582974     PISSN: 10944087     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.14.004357     Document Type: Article

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