Effect of two-photon absorption on soliton propagation and soliton-soliton interaction in a silicon waveguide

Optical Engineering

Volumn 49, Issue 3, 2010, Pages

  Sarma, Amarendra K ^a   Saha, Manirupa ^a   Biswas, Anjan ^b  

^a INDIAN INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY GUWAHATI   (India)

^b DELAWARE STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Optical soliton; Self phase modulation; Two photon absorption

Indexed keywords

FUNDAMENTAL SOLITONS; HIGHER-ORDER SOLITONS; OPTICAL SOLITON; SILICON WAVEGUIDE; SOLITON PROPAGATION; SOLITON-SOLITON INTERACTIONS; TWO-PHOTON ABSORPTIONS;

ABSORPTION; LUMINESCENCE OF ORGANIC SOLIDS; MULTIPHOTON PROCESSES; OPTICAL MATERIALS; PHOTONS; SELF PHASE MODULATION; SOLITONS; WAVEGUIDES;

LIGHT ABSORPTION;

EID: 77949689201     PISSN: 00913286     EISSN: 15602303     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1117/1.3339884     Document Type: Article

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