Nonlinear optical phenomena in silicon waveguides: Modeling and applications

Optics Express

Volumn 15, Issue 25, 2007, Pages 16604-16644

  Lin, Q ^a   Painter, Oskar J ^a   Agrawal, Govind P ^b  

^a California Institute of Technology   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ROCHESTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

RAMAN SCATTERING; SCHRODINGER EQUATION; SILICON; TENSORS; ULTRASHORT PULSES; WAVEGUIDES;

PROPAGATION EQUATION; SILICON WAVEGUIDES; SOLITON FORMATION;

NONLINEAR OPTICS;

EID: 37249079878     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.15.016604     Document Type: Article

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