Ultrafast-pulse self-phase modulation and thirdorder dispersion in Si photonic wire-waveguides

Optics Express

Volumn 14, Issue 25, 2006, Pages 12380-12387

  Hsieh, I Wei ^a   Chen, Xiaogang ^a   Dadap, Jerry I ^a   Panoiu, Nicolae C ^a   Osgood Jr , Richard M ^a   McNab, Sharee J ^b   Vlasov, Yurii A ^b  

^a Och Spine at New York Presbyterian Hospitals   (United States)

^b IBM T J WATSON RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

LIGHT PROPAGATION; NONLINEAR OPTICS; OPTICAL PROPERTIES; OPTICAL WAVEGUIDES; PHOTONS; SOLITONS;

DISPERSION COEFFICIENT; PHOTONIC WIRES; PULSE-PROPAGATION DYNAMICS;

PHASE MODULATION;

EID: 33845415228     PISSN: 10944087     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.14.012380     Document Type: Article

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