A proposal for enhancing four-wave mixing in slow light engineered photonic crystal waveguides and its application to optical regeneration

Optics Express

Volumn 17, Issue 20, 2009, Pages 18340-18353

  Ebnali Heidari, M ^a   Monat, C ^b   Grillet, C ^b   Moravvej Farshi, M K ^a  

^a TARBIAT MODARES UNIVERSITY   (Iran)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DISPERSION (WAVES); EFFICIENCY; ELECTRIC LOSSES; ENERGY TRANSFER; LASER OPTICS; OPTICAL WAVEGUIDES; PHOTONIC CRYSTALS; SLOW LIGHT; WAVEGUIDE COMPONENTS; WAVEGUIDES;

DISPERSION PROFILE; ITS APPLICATIONS; LIGHT ENHANCEMENT; NONLINEAR LOSS; NONLINEAR POWER TRANSFER FUNCTIONS; OPTICAL REGENERATION; PHOTONIC CRYSTAL WAVEGUIDE;

FOUR WAVE MIXING;

ARTICLE; COMPUTER AIDED DESIGN; COMPUTER SIMULATION; EQUIPMENT; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; INSTRUMENTATION; METHODOLOGY; OPTICAL INSTRUMENTATION; PHOTON; RADIATION SCATTERING; REFRACTOMETRY; REPRODUCIBILITY; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; TELECOMMUNICATION; THEORETICAL MODEL;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; COMPUTER-AIDED DESIGN; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; EQUIPMENT FAILURE ANALYSIS; MODELS, THEORETICAL; OPTICAL DEVICES; PHOTONS; REFRACTOMETRY; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SCATTERING, RADIATION; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; TELECOMMUNICATIONS;

EID: 70349667769     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.17.018340     Document Type: Article

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