Net optical gain in a low loss silicon-on-insulator waveguide by stimulated Raman scattering

Optics Express

Volumn 12, Issue 18, 2004, Pages 4261-4268

  Liu, Ansheng ^a   Rong, Haisheng ^a   Paniccia, Mario ^a   Cohen, Oded ^b   Hak, Dani ^b  

^a INTEL CORPORATION   (United States)

^b INTEL CORPORATION   (Israel)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

INTEGRATED OPTICS; LASER PULSES; LIGHT ABSORPTION; NONLINEAR OPTICS; OPTICAL DEVICES; PHOTONS; RAMAN SCATTERING; WAVEGUIDES;

NONLINEAR OPTICAL DEVICES; PHOTON ABSORPTION; PHOTONIC INTEGRATED CIRCUITS; STIMULATED RAMAN SCATTERING (SRS);

SILICON ON INSULATOR TECHNOLOGY;

EID: 6344221966     PISSN: 10944087     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OPEX.12.004261     Document Type: Article

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