Generation of correlated photons in nanoscale silicon waveguides

Optics Express

Volumn 14, Issue 25, 2006, Pages 12388-12393

  Sharping, Jay E ^b   Lee, Kim Fook ^a   Foster, Mark A ^b   Turner, Amy C ^b   Schmidt, Bradley S ^b   Lipson, Michal ^b   Gaeta, Alexander L ^b   Kumar, Prem ^a  

^a NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b Cornell University   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DISPERSION (WAVES); FOUR WAVE MIXING; OPTICAL CORRELATION; OPTICAL PUMPING; OPTICAL WAVEGUIDES; PHOTONS; SILICON;

COINCIDENCE TO ACCIDENTAL RATIO (CAR); CORRELATED PHOTONS; NANOSCALE SILICON WAVEGUIDES; WAVELENGTH DETUNING;

NANOSTRUCTURED MATERIALS;

EID: 33845494293     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.14.012388     Document Type: Article

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