Optical solitons in a silicon waveguide

Optics Express

Volumn 15, Issue 12, 2007, Pages 7682-7688

  Zhang, Jidong ^a   Lin, Qiang ^b   Piredda, Giovanni ^b   Boyd, Robert W ^b   Agrawal, Govind P ^b   Fauchet, Philippe M ^a,b  

^a University of Rochester   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ROCHESTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; DISPERSION (WAVES); OPTICAL WAVEGUIDES; SILICON;

CARRIER WAVELENGTH; PULSE ENERGY; SPECTRAL NARROWING;

SOLITONS;

EID: 34250203950     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.15.007682     Document Type: Article

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