Terahertz all-optical modulation in a silicon-polymer hybrid system

Nature Materials

Volumn 5, Issue 9, 2006, Pages 703-709

  Hochberg, Michael ^a   Baehr Jones, Tom ^a   Wang, Guangxi ^a   Shearn, Michael ^a   Harvard, Katherine ^a   Luo, Jingdong ^b   Chen, Baoquan ^b   Shi, Zhengwei ^b   Lawson, Rhys ^c   Sullivan, Phil ^c   Jen, Alex K Y ^b   Dalton, Larry ^c   Scherer, Axel ^a  

^a California Institute of Technology   (United States)

^b University of Washington   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DISPERSION (WAVES); LIGHT MODULATION; OPTICAL KERR EFFECT; PHASE MODULATION; PHASE SHIFT; PHOTODETECTORS; POLYMERS; ULTRAFAST PHENOMENA; WAVEGUIDE COMPONENTS;

INTENSITY MODULATORS; OPTICAL PARAMETER; ULTRAFAST EFFECT; WAVE MIXING;

POLYSILICON;

EID: 33748266449     PISSN: 14761122     EISSN: 14764660     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nmat1719     Document Type: Article

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