Tightly trapped acoustic phonons in photonic crystal fibres as highly nonlinear artificial Raman oscillators

Nature Physics

Volumn 5, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 276-280

  Kang, M S ^a   Nazarkin, A ^a   Brenn, A ^a   Russell, P St J ^a  

^a MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR THE SCIENCE OF LIGHT   (Germany)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

ACOUSTIC WAVES; AUTOMATIC GUIDED VEHICLES; BRILLOUIN SCATTERING; CRYSTAL OSCILLATORS; CRYSTAL WHISKERS; CUTOFF FREQUENCY; FIBER LASERS; FORWARD SCATTERING; LASER MODE LOCKING; LIGHT; LOCKS (FASTENERS); MICROMECHANICAL RESONATORS; NONLINEAR OPTICS; OPTICAL FIBERS; PHASE MATCHING; PHONONS; PHOTONIC CRYSTAL FIBERS; PHOTONIC CRYSTALS; PUMPING (LASER); QUANTUM OPTICS; SILICA;

ACOUSTIC RESONANCE; ACOUSTIC VIBRATION; DUAL-FREQUENCY LASERS; FIBRE CROSS-SECTION; GUIDED ACOUSTIC WAVES; NONLINEAR OPTICAL DEVICES; STRONGLY NONLINEAR; STRUCTURED MATERIALS;

ACOUSTIC WAVE SCATTERING;

EID: 63849173687     PISSN: 17452473     EISSN: 17452481     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nphys1217     Document Type: Article

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