Optical nonlinearities in silicon for pulse durations of the order of nanoseconds at 1.06 μm

Optics Express

Volumn 16, Issue 19, 2008, Pages 14780-14791

  Ogusu, Kazuhiko ^a   Shinkawa, Kenta ^a  

^a SHIZUOKA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BRILLOUIN SCATTERING; REFRACTIVE INDEX;

ABSORPTION CO-EFFICIENT; CARRIER RECOMBINATION; CUMULATIVE NONLINEARITY; EXCITATION WAVELENGTH; NONLINEAR ABSORPTION COEFFICIENT; NONLINEAR REFRACTIVE INDEX; PHOTOEXCITED CARRIERS; THIRD-ORDER NONLINEAR EFFECT;

NONLINEAR OPTICS;

SILICON;

ARTICLE; CHEMISTRY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; LIGHT; METHODOLOGY; NANOTECHNOLOGY; OPTICS; RADIATION SCATTERING; SIGNAL PROCESSING; THEORETICAL MODEL;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; LIGHT; MODELS, THEORETICAL; NANOTECHNOLOGY; OPTICS; SCATTERING, RADIATION; SIGNAL PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; SILICON;

EID: 51849136130     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.16.014780     Document Type: Article

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