Observation of Raman scattering in GaAs photonic-crystal slab waveguides

Optics Express

Volumn 14, Issue 15, 2006, Pages 6659-6667

  Oda, Hisaya ^a   Inoue, Kuon ^b,d   Ikeda, Naoki ^c   Sugimoto, Yoshimasa ^c   Asakawa, Kiyoshi ^c  

^a CHITOSE INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Japan)

^b TOYOTA PHYSICAL AND CHEMICAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Japan)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TSUKUBA   (Japan)

^d NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF ADVANCED INDUSTRIAL SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY AIST   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

LIGHT AMPLIFIERS; PHONONS; RAMAN SCATTERING; SEMICONDUCTING GALLIUM COMPOUNDS; WAVEGUIDES;

OPTICAL CIRCUITS; PHOTONIC-CRYSTAL SLAB WAVEGUIDES; STIMULATED RAMAN SCATTERING;

CRYSTAL STRUCTURE;

EID: 33746336532     PISSN: 10944087     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.14.006659     Document Type: Article

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