Energy harvesting in silicon wavelength converters

Optics Express

Volumn 14, Issue 25, 2006, Pages 12327-12333

  Tsia, Kevin K ^a   Fathpour, Sasan ^a   Jalali, Bahram ^a  

^a Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

LIGHT ABSORPTION; OPTICAL INSTRUMENTS; PHOTONS; PHOTOVOLTAIC EFFECTS; SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICES;

OPTICAL INTENSITY; OPTICAL POWER; SILICON DEVICES;

NONLINEAR OPTICS;

EID: 33845448325     PISSN: 10944087     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.14.012327     Document Type: Article

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