Optimal waveguide dimensions for nonlinear interactions

Optics Express

Volumn 12, Issue 13, 2004, Pages 2880-2887

  Foster, M A ^a   Moll, K D ^a   Gaeta, Alexander L ^a  

^a Cornell University   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLADDING (COATING); ELECTROMAGNETIC DISPERSION; INTEGRATED CIRCUITS; MICROSTRUCTURE; OPTICAL DEVICES; OPTICAL FIBERS; OPTICAL SWITCHES; OPTICAL WAVEGUIDES;

FREQUENCY GENERATION; NONLINEAR INTERACTIONS; SUPERCONTINUUM GENERATION; WAVEGUIDE DIMENSIONS;

NONLINEAR OPTICS;

EID: 4644316453     PISSN: 10944087     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OPEX.12.002880     Document Type: Article

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