Green light emission in silicon through slow-light enhanced third-harmonic generation in photonic-crystal waveguides

Nature Photonics

Volumn 3, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 206-210

  Corcoran, B ^a   Monat, C ^a   Grillet, C ^a   Moss, D J ^a   Eggleton, B J ^a   White, T P ^b   O'Faolain, L ^b   Krauss, T F ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ST ANDREWS   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GREEN LIGHT EMISSION; NONLINEAR FUNCTIONS; NONLINEAR OPTICAL EFFECTS; NONLINEAR OPTICAL PROCESS; PHOTONIC CRYSTAL WAVEGUIDE; REDUCED GROUP VELOCITIES; SPATIAL COMPRESSION; THIRD-HARMONIC GENERATION;

HARMONIC GENERATION; OPTICAL COMMUNICATION; PHOTONIC DEVICES; SILICON; SLOW LIGHT; TWO DIMENSIONAL;

WAVEGUIDE COMPONENTS;

EID: 63949083149     PISSN: 17494885     EISSN: 17494893     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nphoton.2009.28     Document Type: Article

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