Non-trivial scaling of self-phase modulation and three-photon absorption in III-V photonic crystal waveguides

Optics Express

Volumn 17, Issue 25, 2009, Pages 22442-22451

  Husko, Chad ^a,b   Combrié, Sylvain ^a   Vy Tran, Quynh ^a   Raineri, Fabrice ^c,d   Wong, Chee Wei ^b   De Rossi, Alfredo ^a  

^a THALES RESEARCH AND TECHNOLOGY   (France)

^b Och Spine at New York Presbyterian Hospitals   (United States)

^c UNIV PARIS SUD   (France)

^d UNIVERSITÉ PARIS DESCARTES   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GROUP VELOCITY DISPERSION; LASER OPTICS; LIGHT ABSORPTION; LIGHT VELOCITY; NONLINEAR OPTICS; OPTICAL WAVEGUIDES; PHASE MODULATION; PHOTONIC CRYSTALS; PHOTONS; SELF PHASE MODULATION; SLOW LIGHT; TWO PHOTON PROCESSES; WAVEGUIDE COMPONENTS; WAVEGUIDES;

EFFECTIVE NONLINEAR COEFFICIENT; GROUP VELOCITIES; NON-LINEAR RESPONSE; PHOTONIC CRYSTAL WAVEGUIDE; POSITIVE CHIRP; SLOW GROUP VELOCITY; THREE PHOTON ABSORPTION; TWO PHOTON ABSORPTION;

MULTIPHOTON PROCESSES;

ARTICLE; COMPUTER AIDED DESIGN; CRYSTALLIZATION; EQUIPMENT; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; EVALUATION; INSTRUMENTATION; LIGHT; NONLINEAR SYSTEM; OPTICAL INSTRUMENTATION; PHOTON; RADIATION SCATTERING; REFRACTOMETRY;

COMPUTER-AIDED DESIGN; CRYSTALLIZATION; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; EQUIPMENT FAILURE ANALYSIS; LENSES; LIGHT; NONLINEAR DYNAMICS; PHOTONS; REFRACTOMETRY; SCATTERING, RADIATION;

EID: 71949120766     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.17.022442     Document Type: Article

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