Raman amplification of optical pulses in silicon waveguides: Effects of finite gain bandwidth, pulse width, and chirp

Journal of the Optical Society of America B: Optical Physics

Volumn 26, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 17-25

  Roy, Samudra ^a   Bhadra, Shyamal K ^a   Agrawal, Govind P ^b  

^a CSIR CENTRAL GLASS AND CERAMIC RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (India)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ROCHESTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BANDWIDTH; TWO PHOTON PROCESSES; VARIATIONAL TECHNIQUES; WAVEGUIDES;

CONTINUOUS-WAVE PUMPING; DISSIPATION FUNCTIONS; FINITE GAIN BANDWIDTHS; FREE CARRIER ABSORPTION; RAMAN AMPLIFICATION; SPLIT-STEP FOURIER ALGORITHM; THEORETICAL MODELING; TWO PHOTON ABSORPTION;

OPTICAL PUMPING;

EID: 59949096466     PISSN: 07403224     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/JOSAB.26.000017     Document Type: Article

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