Supercontinuum generation in silicon photonic wires

Optics Express

Volumn 15, Issue 23, 2007, Pages 15242-15249

  Hsieh, I Wei ^a   Chen, Xiaogang ^a   Liu, Xiaoping ^a   Dadap, Jerry I ^a   Panoiu, Nicolae C ^b   Chou, Cheng Yun ^a   Xia, Fengnian ^c   Green, William M ^c   Vlasov, Yurii A ^c   Osgood Jr , Richard M ^a  

^a Och Spine at New York Presbyterian Hospitals   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^c IBM T J WATSON RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DISPERSIONS; LASER PULSES; SPECTRUM ANALYSIS; WAVEGUIDES; WAVELENGTH;

SILICON PHOTONIC WIRES; SOLITON RADIATIVE EFFECTS; WAVEGUIDE DISPERSION;

CONTINUUM MECHANICS;

EID: 36248982729     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.15.015242     Document Type: Article

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