Plasmonic all-optical tunable wavelength shifter

Nature Photonics

Volumn 1, Issue 12, 2007, Pages 701-703

  Fluegel, B ^a   Mascarenhas, A ^a   Snoke, D W ^b   Pfeiffer, L N ^c   West, K ^c  

^a NATIONAL RENEWABLE ENERGY LABORATORY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH   (United States)

^c LUCENT TECHNOLOGIES   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALL-OPTICAL NETWORKS; CARRIER WAVELENGTH; DYNAMICAL CONTROL; ELECTRICAL CONVERSION; ELECTRO-OPTIC MODULATION; NONLINEAR INTERACTIONS; TUNABLE WAVELENGTH; WAVELENGTH SHIFTING;

OPTICAL DATA PROCESSING; PLASMONS;

WAVELENGTH;

EID: 36749073504     PISSN: 17494885     EISSN: 17494893     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nphoton.2007.229     Document Type: Article

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