Ultrafast all-optical chalcogenide glass photonic circuits

Optics Express

Volumn 15, Issue 15, 2007, Pages 9205-9221

  Ta'eed, Vahid G ^a   Baker, Neil J ^a   Fu, Libin ^a   Finsterbusch, Klaus ^a   Lamont, Michael R E ^a   Moss, David J ^a   Nguyen, Hong C ^a   Eggleton, Benjamin J ^a   Choi, Duk Yong ^b   Madden, Steven ^b   Luther Davies, Barry ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY   (Australia)

^b AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ABSORPTION; CHALCOGENIDES; CONTROL NONLINEARITIES; OPTICAL DEVICES; OPTICAL FREQUENCY CONVERSION; OPTICAL SIGNAL PROCESSING; PHOTONS; PHOTOSENSITIVITY; PULSE COMPRESSION;

HIGH QUALITY GRATINGS; PHOTONIC CIRCUITS; SIGNAL REGENERATION;

PHOTONIC CRYSTALS;

EID: 34547443072     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.15.009205     Document Type: Article

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