Ultrafast raman pulses in SOI optical waveguides for nonlinear signal processing

IEEE Journal on Selected Topics in Quantum Electronics

Volumn 14, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 739-751

  De Leonardis, Francesco ^b   Passaro, Vittorio M N ^a,b  

^a IEEE

^b POLITECNICO DI BARI   (Italy)

Author keywords

Integrated optics; Nonlinear optics; Optical signal processing; Optical solitons; Pulse amplifiers; Raman scattering; Silicon on insulator (SOI) technology

Indexed keywords

ABSORPTION; AMPLIFICATION; DATA STORAGE EQUIPMENT; DISPERSION (WAVES); INTEGRATED OPTOELECTRONICS; IRIDIUM; KERR MAGNETOOPTICAL EFFECT; MAGNETIC FIELD EFFECTS; MAGNETOOPTICAL EFFECTS; MODULATION; NONLINEAR PROGRAMMING; OPTICAL SIGNAL PROCESSING; OPTICS; SIGNAL PROCESSING; SILICON; WAVEGUIDES;

CROSS PHASE MODULATION (PMD); FREE CARRIERS; GENERAL (CO); GROUP VELOCITY (GV); HIGHER ORDER; KERR EFFECTS; MULTI WAVELENGTHS; NON-LINEAR SIGNAL PROCESSING; NONLINEAR OPTICAL SIGNAL PROCESSING; OPTICAL (PET) (OPET); POLARIZATION COUPLING; PUMP DEPLETION; RAMAN AMPLIFICATIONS; RAMAN PULSES; RIB WAVEGUIDES; SILICON ON INSULATOR (SOI); SOLITON FORMATION; STIMULATED RAMAN; SUBPICOSECOND REGIME; ULTRA-FAST; WALK OFF;

OPTICAL WAVEGUIDES;

EID: 45249123855     PISSN: 1077260X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/JSTQE.2008.918311     Document Type: Article

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