All optical switching and continuum generation in silicon waveguides

Optics Express

Volumn 12, Issue 17, 2004, Pages 4094-4102

  Boyraz, Özdal ^a   Koonath, Prakash ^a   Raghunathan, Varun ^a   Jalali, Bahram ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CONTINUOUS WAVE LASERS; INTEGRATED CIRCUITS; INTEGRATED OPTICS; INTERFEROMETERS; LIGHT ABSORPTION; LIGHT REFRACTION; NONLINEAR OPTICS; OPTICAL KERR EFFECT; OPTICAL WAVEGUIDES; PHASE MODULATION; PHOTONS; POWER TRANSMISSION; SILICON;

PHOTONIC INTEGRATED CIRCUITS; SILICON WAVEGUIDES; TRANSIENT EFFECTS;

OPTICAL SWITCHES;

EID: 4644323764     PISSN: 10944087     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OPEX.12.004094     Document Type: Article

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