Self-phase modulation-based integrated optical regeneration in chalcogenide waveguides

IEEE Journal on Selected Topics in Quantum Electronics

Volumn 12, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 360-369

  Ta'Eed, Vahid G ^a,b,e   Shokooh Saremi, Mehrdad ^b,c   Fu, Libin ^b,f   Littler, Ian C M ^b   Moss, David J ^a,b,e   Rochette, Martin ^b   Eggleton, Benjamin J ^b,e,f   Ruan, Yinlan ^d,e   Luther Davies, Barry ^a,d  

^a IEEE   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY   (Australia)

^c SHAHROOD UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Iran)

^d AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^e OPTICAL SOCIETY OF AMERICA   (United States)

^f CENTRE FOR ULTRAHIGH BANDWIDTH DEVICES FOR OPTICAL SYSTEMS CUDOS   (Australia)

Author keywords

Chalcogenide glass; Gratings; Integrated optics; Nonlinear optics; Optical planar waveguides; Optical propagation in nonlinear media; Optical signal processing; Self phase modulation

Indexed keywords

CHALCOGENIDE GLASS; OPTICAL PLANAR WAVEGUIDES; OPTICAL PROPAGATION IN NONLINEAR MEDIA; OPTICAL SIGNAL PROCESSING;

DIFFRACTION GRATINGS; INTEGRATED OPTICS; LIGHT PROPAGATION; NONLINEAR OPTICS; OPTICAL KERR EFFECT; SELF PHASE MODULATION; SPURIOUS SIGNAL NOISE;

WAVEGUIDES;

EID: 33745014817     PISSN: 1077260X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/JSTQE.2006.872727     Document Type: Article

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