Large tunable delays using parametric mixing and phase conjugation in Si nanowaveguides

Optics Express

Volumn 16, Issue 14, 2008, Pages 10349-10357

  Okawachi, Yoshitomo ^a   Foster, Mark A ^a   Chen, Xianpei ^a   Turner Foster, Amy C ^a   Salem, Reza ^a   Lipson, Michal ^a   Xu, Chris ^a   Gaeta, Alexander L ^a  

^a Cornell University   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

OPTICAL CONSTANTS; OPTICS;

10 GB/ S; ALL OPTICAL; NANOWAVEGUIDES; PULSE DISTORTION; TEMPORAL PHASE CONJUGATION;

FOUR WAVE MIXING;

EID: 47249138251     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.16.010349     Document Type: Article

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