Nonlinearities in porous silicon optical waveguides at 1550 nm

Optics Express

Volumn 17, Issue 5, 2009, Pages 3396-3406

  Apiratikul, Paveen ^a   Rossi, Andrea M ^a,b   Murphy, Thomas E ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND   (United States)

^b ISTITUTO NAZIONALE DI RICERCA METROLOGICA   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CRYSTALLINE MATERIALS; MODULATION; NONLINEAR OPTICS; OPTICAL PROPERTIES; OPTICAL WAVEGUIDES; PHASE MODULATION; PHOTONS; RIDGE WAVEGUIDES; SELF PHASE MODULATION; SILICON; SILICON ON INSULATOR TECHNOLOGY; TWO PHOTON PROCESSES; WAVEGUIDES;

CRYSTALLINE SILICONS; EXPERIMENTAL INVESTIGATIONS; FREE CARRIER ABSORPTION; FREE-CARRIER PLASMAS; NANO-POROUS SILICON; NON-LINEAR OPTICAL PROPERTIES; NONLINEAR PROPERTIES; TWO PHOTON ABSORPTION;

POROUS SILICON;

EID: 61549142073     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.17.003396     Document Type: Article

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