Second harmonic generation in gallium phosphide photonic crystal nanocavities with ultralow continuous wave pump power

Optics Express

Volumn 17, Issue 25, 2009, Pages 22609-22615

  Rivoire, Kelley ^a   Lin, Ziliang ^a   Hatami, Fariba ^b   Masselink, W Ted ^b   Vučković, Jelena ^a  

^a STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b HUMBOLDT UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ENERGY GAP; HARMONIC ANALYSIS; HARMONIC GENERATION; LIGHT SOURCES; NONLINEAR OPTICS; PHOTONIC CRYSTALS; SEMICONDUCTING GALLIUM;

ABSORPTION LOSS; CONTINUOUS WAVE PUMP; ELECTRONIC BAND GAPS; LOW POWER; NONLINEAR PROCESS; PHOTONIC CRYSTAL NANOCAVITIES; REDUCTION OF INPUTS; SECOND-HARMONIC RADIATION;

GALLIUM PHOSPHIDE;

GALLIUM; GALLIUM PHOSPHIDE; NANOMATERIAL; PHOSPHINE DERIVATIVE;

ARTICLE; CHEMISTRY; COMPUTER AIDED DESIGN; ENERGY TRANSFER; EQUIPMENT; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; EVALUATION; ILLUMINATION; INSTRUMENTATION; LASER; NANOTECHNOLOGY; PARTICLE SIZE; ULTRASTRUCTURE;

COMPUTER-AIDED DESIGN; ENERGY TRANSFER; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; EQUIPMENT FAILURE ANALYSIS; GALLIUM; LASERS; LIGHTING; NANOSTRUCTURES; NANOTECHNOLOGY; PARTICLE SIZE; PHOSPHINES;

EID: 72049084279     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.17.022609     Document Type: Article

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