Coupling induced anomalous group velocity dispersion in nonlinear arrays of silicon photonic wires

Optics Express

Volumn 17, Issue 7, 2009, Pages 5879-5884

  Benton, Christopher J ^a   Skryabin, Dmitry V ^a  

^a University of Bath   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DISPERSION (WAVES); LIGHT VELOCITY; PHOTONIC DEVICES; WIRE;

MODULATIONAL INSTABILITY; NONLINEAR ARRAYS; SILICON PHOTONIC WIRES; SINGLE WIRES; SOLITON PROPAGATION; SUPERMODES;

GROUP VELOCITY DISPERSION;

SILICON;

ARTICLE; CHEMISTRY; COMPUTER AIDED DESIGN; COMPUTER SIMULATION; EQUIPMENT; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; LIGHT; METHODOLOGY; RADIATION SCATTERING; REFRACTOMETRY; REPRODUCIBILITY; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; THEORETICAL MODEL;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; COMPUTER-AIDED DESIGN; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; EQUIPMENT FAILURE ANALYSIS; LIGHT; MODELS, THEORETICAL; REFRACTOMETRY; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SCATTERING, RADIATION; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SILICON;

EID: 65249171977     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.17.005879     Document Type: Article

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