Nonlinearity of optimized silicon photonic slot waveguides

Optics Express

Volumn 17, Issue 11, 2009, Pages 9282-9287

  Muellner, Paul ^a   Wellenzohn, Markus ^a   Hainberger, Rainer ^a  

^a AIT AUSTRIAN INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Austria)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

REFRACTIVE INDEX; SILICON;

LOW REFRACTIVE INDEX; NONLINEAR INTERACTIONS; NONLINEAR LAYERS; NONLINEARITY COEFFICIENT; SILICON PHOTONICS; SILICON WIRES; SLOT WAVEGUIDE; VERTICAL-SLOT;

WAVEGUIDES;

SILICON;

ARTICLE; COMPUTER AIDED DESIGN; EQUIPMENT; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; INSTRUMENTATION; LIGHT; NONLINEAR SYSTEM; PHOTON; RADIATION SCATTERING; REFRACTOMETRY; REPRODUCIBILITY; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

COMPUTER-AIDED DESIGN; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; EQUIPMENT FAILURE ANALYSIS; LIGHT; NONLINEAR DYNAMICS; PHOTONS; REFRACTOMETRY; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SCATTERING, RADIATION; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SILICON;

EID: 66449121886     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.17.009282     Document Type: Article

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