Theory of Raman-mediated pulsed amplification in silicon-wire waveguides

IEEE Journal of Quantum Electronics

Volumn 42, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 160-170

  Chen, Xiaogang ^a   Panoiu, Nicolae C ^a   Osgood Jr , Richard M ^a  

^a Columbia University ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

Coupled mode analysis; Raman amplification; Silicon nanowire waveguide; Stimulated Raman scattering (SRS)

Indexed keywords

COUPLED EQUATION; COUPLED-MODE ANALYSIS; CROSS-PHASE MODULATIONS; FREE CARRIERS; FREQUENCY DISPERSION; PULSE DYNAMICS; PULSE INTERACTION; RAMAN AMPLIFICATION; RAMAN INTERACTIONS; RATE EQUATIONS; SECOND ORDERS; SELF-PHASE; SILICON NANOWIRE WAVEGUIDE; SILICON NANOWIRES; SILICON WIRES; SYSTEM OF EQUATIONS; THEORETICAL STUDY; TWO-PHOTON ABSORPTIONS; WIRE WAVE GUIDES;

INTERACTIVE COMPUTER SYSTEMS; LIGHT ABSORPTION; LUMINESCENCE OF ORGANIC SOLIDS; MULTIPHOTON PROCESSES; NANOWIRES; OPTICAL WAVEGUIDES; SCATTERING; STIMULATED RAMAN SCATTERING; WAVEGUIDES; WIRE;

AMPLIFICATION;

EID: 77949439527     PISSN: 00189197     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/JQE.2005.861827     Document Type: Article

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