Optical gain in planar waveguides

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 6609, Issue , 2007, Pages

  Ostatnicky T ^a,c   Janda, P ^a   Valenta, J ^a   Pelant, I ^b  

^a CHARLES UNIVERSITY   (Czech Republic)

^b INSTITUTE OF PHYSICS   (Czech Republic)

^c NONE   (Czech Republic)

Author keywords

Optical gain; Planar waveguide; Radiative modes; Silicon nanocrystals

Indexed keywords

MICROELECTRONICS; OPTICAL GAIN; OPTICAL WAVEGUIDES; PHOTOLUMINESCENCE; WAVE PROPAGATION;

ACTIVE PLANAR WAVEGUIDES; OPTICAL AMPLIFICATION; RADIATIVE MODES; SILICON NANOCRYSTALS; VARIABLE STRIPE LENGTH;

PLANAR WAVEGUIDES;

EID: 36248944019     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.739493     Document Type: Conference Paper

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