Light localization induced enhancement of third order nonlinearities in a GaAs photonic crystal waveguide

Optics Express

Volumn 17, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 552-557

  Baron, Alexandre ^a   Ryasnyanskiy, Aleksandr ^a   Dubreuil, Nicolas ^a   Delaye, Philippe ^a   Tran, Quynh Vy ^b   Combrié, Sylvain ^b   De Rossi, Alfredo ^b   Frey, Robert ^a   Roosen, Gerald ^a  

^a UNIV PARIS SUD   (France)

^b THALES RESEARCH AND TECHNOLOGY   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GALLIUM ARSENIDE; LASER OPTICS; LIGHT PROPAGATION; LUMINESCENCE OF ORGANIC SOLIDS; OPTICAL WAVEGUIDES; PHOTONIC CRYSTALS; REFRACTIVE INDEX; SEMICONDUCTING GALLIUM; SLOW LIGHT; TWO PHOTON PROCESSES; WAVEGUIDE COMPONENTS; WAVEGUIDES;

NONLINEAR PROPAGATION; OPTICAL SWITCHING DEVICES; PHOTONIC CRYSTAL WAVEGUIDE; QUANTITATIVE AGREEMENT; REFRACTIVE INDEX CHANGES; THEORETICAL MODELING; THIRD-ORDER NON-LINEARITY; TWO PHOTON ABSORPTION;

OPTICAL KERR EFFECT;

EID: 58449121629     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.17.000552     Document Type: Article

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