Enhanced third-order nonlinear effects in optical AlGaAs nanowires

Optics Express

Volumn 14, Issue 20, 2006, Pages 9377-9384

  Siviloglou, G A ^a   Suntsov, S ^a   El Ganainy, R ^a   Iwanow, R ^a   Stegeman, G I ^a   Christodoulides, D N ^a   Morandotti, R ^b   Modotto, D ^c   Locatelli, A ^c   De Angelis, C ^c   Pozzi, F ^d   Stanley, C R ^d   Sorel, M ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CENTRAL FLORIDA   (United States)

^b INSTITUT NATIONAL DE LA RECHERCHE SCIENTIFIQUE   (Canada)

^c UNIVERSITY OF BRESCIA   (Italy)

^d UNIVERSITY OF GLASGOW   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALUMINUM COMPOUNDS; NANOSTRUCTURED MATERIALS; OPTICAL FIBER FABRICATION; PHASE SHIFT; WAVEGUIDES;

NANOWAVEGUIDES; NONLINEAR PHASE SHIFTS; THIRD-ORDER NONLINEAR EFFECTS;

NONLINEAR OPTICS;

EID: 33749417835     PISSN: 10944087     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.14.009377     Document Type: Article

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