Investigation of phase matching for third-harmonic generation in silicon slow light photonic crystal waveguides using Fourier optics

Optics Express

Volumn 18, Issue 7, 2010, Pages 6831-6840

  Monat, Christelle ^a   Grillet, Christian ^a   Corcoran, Bill ^a   Moss, David J ^a   Eggleton, Benjamin J ^a   White, Thomas P ^b   Krauss, Thomas F ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ST ANDREWS   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HARMONIC ANALYSIS; HARMONIC GENERATION; LASER OPTICS; LIGHT; OPTICAL WAVEGUIDES; PHASE MATCHING; PHOTONIC CRYSTALS; WAVEGUIDES;

ANGULAR PATTERN; BAND STRUCTURE CALCULATION; FUNDAMENTAL MODES; HIGH EFFICIENCY; LIGHT LINES; NONLINEAR PROCESS; PHOTONIC CRYSTAL WAVEGUIDE; QUASI PHASE MATCHING; RADIATION MODE; SILICON PHOTONIC CRYSTALS; THIRD HARMONIC; THIRD-HARMONIC GENERATION; THIRD-HARMONIC SIGNALS; VISIBLE WAVELENGTHS; WAVE VECTOR;

SLOW LIGHT;

SILICON;

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; CHEMISTRY; CRYSTALLIZATION; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; FOURIER ANALYSIS; LIGHT; MATERIALS TESTING; METHODOLOGY; OPTICS; PHOTON; RADIATION SCATTERING; REFRACTOMETRY;

ALGORITHMS; CRYSTALLIZATION; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; FOURIER ANALYSIS; LIGHT; MATERIALS TESTING; OPTICS AND PHOTONICS; PHOTONS; REFRACTOMETRY; SCATTERING, RADIATION; SILICON;

EID: 77950233650     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.18.006831     Document Type: Article

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