Enhanced Kerr nonlinearity in As2Se3 chalcogenide fibre tapers with sub-wavelength diameter

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 6588, Issue , 2007, Pages

  Nguyen, Hong C ^a   Mägi, Eric C ^a   Yeom, Dong Il ^a   Fu, Libin ^a   Eggleton, Benjamin J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Chalcogenide; Fibre taper; Kerr nonlinearity; Nanowire; Nonlinear

Indexed keywords

FIBER AMPLIFIERS; GROUP VELOCITY DISPERSION; NANOWIRES; NONLINEAR SYSTEMS; OPTICAL FIBERS; OPTICAL KERR EFFECT;

CHALCOGENIDE FIBRES; FIBRE TAPERS; KERR NONLINEARITY; NONLINEAR-INDEX COEFFICIENTS;

CHALCOGENIDES;

EID: 36248973269     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.722717     Document Type: Conference Paper

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