Effects of heat induced by two-photon absorption and free-carrier absorption in silicon-on-insulator nanowaveguides operating as all-optical wavelength converters

Applied Optics

Volumn 48, Issue 13, 2009, Pages 2505-2514

  Abdollahi, Siamak ^a   Moravvej Farshi, Mohammad Kazem ^a  

^a TARBIAT MODARES UNIVERSITY   (Iran)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

OPTICAL FREQUENCY CONVERSION; PHOTONS; SILICON ON INSULATOR TECHNOLOGY;

ALL OPTICAL WAVELENGTH CONVERTER; CROSS SECTIONAL AREA; FREE CARRIER ABSORPTION; OUTPUT CHARACTERISTICS; PICOSECOND REGIME; PUMP INTENSITIES; SILICON-ON- INSULATORS (SOI); TWO PHOTON ABSORPTION;

TWO PHOTON PROCESSES;

EID: 67249125492     PISSN: 1559128X     EISSN: 15394522     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/AO.48.002505     Document Type: Article

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