Nonlinear silicon photonics: Analytical tools

IEEE Journal on Selected Topics in Quantum Electronics

Volumn 16, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 200-215

  Rukhlenko, Ivan D ^a   Premaratne, Malin ^a   Agrawal, Govind P ^b  

^a MONASH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ROCHESTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Free carrier absorption (FCA); Integrated optics; Kerr effect; Nonlinear optics; Optical pulse propagation; Raman effect; Silicon photonics; Silicon Raman amplifiers; Silicon waveguides; Two photon absorption (TPA); Waveguide tapering

Indexed keywords

FREE CARRIER ABSORPTION; FREE-CARRIER ABSORPTION (FCA); KERR EFFECT; KERR EFFECTS; OPTICAL PULSE PROPAGATION; SILICON PHOTONICS; SILICON RAMAN AMPLIFIER; SILICON WAVEGUIDE; SILICON WAVEGUIDES; TWO-PHOTON ABSORPTIONS;

ABSORPTION; AMPLIFICATION; AMPLIFIERS (ELECTRONIC); COMPUTER SIMULATION; INTEGRATED OPTICS; KERR MAGNETOOPTICAL EFFECT; LASER PULSES; LIGHT; LIGHT ABSORPTION; LIGHT AMPLIFIERS; LIGHT PULSE GENERATORS; LUMINESCENCE OF ORGANIC SOLIDS; MAGNETIC FIELD EFFECTS; MULTIPHOTON PROCESSES; NONLINEAR OPTICS; OPTICAL KERR EFFECT; OPTICAL MATERIALS; PHOTONIC DEVICES; PHOTONICS; PHOTONS; PUMPS; RAMAN SCATTERING; WAVE EQUATIONS; WAVEGUIDES;

NONLINEAR EQUATIONS;

EID: 76949089153     PISSN: 1077260X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/JSTQE.2009.2026435     Document Type: Article

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