Broad-band optical parametric gain on a silicon photonic chip

Nature

Volumn 441, Issue 7096, 2006, Pages 960-963

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

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

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BANDWIDTH; BROADBAND AMPLIFIERS; GAIN CONTROL; INTEGRATED CIRCUITS; MICROPROCESSOR CHIPS; OPTICAL WAVEGUIDES; RAMAN SCATTERING; SEMICONDUCTING SILICON; SILICON ON INSULATOR TECHNOLOGY;

GAIN BANDWIDTH; MULTIPLE WAVELENGTH CHANNELS; OPTICAL SIGNAL REGENERATORS; RAMAN OSCILLATORS;

OPTICAL PARAMETRIC OSCILLATORS;

SILICON;

AMPLIFICATION; INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY; OPTICAL PROPERTY; RAMAN SPECTROSCOPY; SILICA; SILICON; WAVELENGTH;

ARTICLE; CALCULATION; INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY; INTEGRATED CIRCUIT; LIGHT; MATHEMATICAL ANALYSIS; OPTICAL AMPLIFIER; OPTICAL INSTRUMENTATION; OPTICS; OSCILLATION; PHOTON; PHOTONIC CHIP; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUANTUM MECHANICS; SIGNAL DETECTION; SILICON ON INSULATOR PHOTONIC INTEGRATED CIRCUIT; SPECTRAL SENSITIVITY;

EID: 33745561784     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: 14764687     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nature04932     Document Type: Article

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