Optical properties of highly nonlinear silicon-organic hybrid (SQH) waveguide geometries

Optics Express

Volumn 17, Issue 20, 2009, Pages 17357-17368

  Vallaitis, Thomas ^a   Bogatscher, Siegwart ^a   Alloatti, Luca ^a   Dumon, Pieter ^b   Baets, Roel ^b   Scimeca, Michelle L ^c   Biaggio, Ivan ^c   Diederich, Francois ^d   Koos, Christian ^a,e   Freude, Wolfgang ^a   Leuthold, Juerg ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF KARLSRUHE   (Germany)

^b GHENT UNIVERSITY   (Belgium)

^c LEHIGH UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^e CARL ZEISS SMT AG   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FOUR WAVE MIXING; OPTICAL PROPERTIES; PHOTONS; SILICON; TWO PHOTON PROCESSES; WAVEGUIDES;

FIGURE OF MERIT (FOM); FIGURE OF MERITS; FUNDAMENTAL LIMITATIONS; HIGH NONLINEARITY; NONLINEAR SILICONS; PUMP PROBE MEASUREMENT; TWO PHOTON ABSORPTION; WAVEGUIDE GEOMETRY;

NONLINEAR OPTICS;

ORGANIC COMPOUND; SILICON;

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

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

EID: 70349657121     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.17.017357     Document Type: Article

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