Self-imaging silicon Raman amplifier

Optics Express

Volumn 15, Issue 6, 2007, Pages 3396-3408

  Raghunathan, Varun ^a   Renner, Hagen ^b   Rice, Robert R ^c   Jalali, Bahram ^a  

^a University of California   (United States)

^b HAMBURG UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Germany)

^c NORTHROP GRUMMAN CORPORATION   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FOUR WAVE MIXING; IMAGE QUALITY; LIGHT TRANSMISSION; OPTICAL WAVEGUIDES;

MID WAVE INFRARED (MWIR) REMOTE SENSING; NONLINEAR INTERACTIONS; STOKES MODES;

LIGHT AMPLIFIERS;

EID: 33947358590     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.15.003396     Document Type: Article

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