Broadband all-optical modulation in hydrogenated-amorphous silicon waveguides

Optics Express

Volumn 18, Issue 10, 2010, Pages 9809-9814

  Narayanan, Karthik ^a   Elshaari, Ali W ^a   Preble, Stefan F ^a  

^a Kate Gleason College of Engineering   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CRYSTALLINE MATERIALS; HYDROGENATION; LIGHT MODULATION; WAVEGUIDES;

A-SI:H; ALL-OPTICAL; AMORPHOUS SILICON (A-SI:H); AMORPHOUS SILICON WAVEGUIDES; CRYSTALLINE SILICONS; FREE CARRIER ABSORPTION; HIGH-PERFORMANCE PLATFORMS; INTERFERENCE EFFECTS; LOW LOSS; MODULATION TIME; OPTICAL SOCIETY OF AMERICA; RECOMBINATION RATE; SUBMICRON; SURFACE RECOMBINATIONS;

AMORPHOUS SILICON;

HYDROGEN; SILICON;

ARTICLE; CHEMISTRY; INSTRUMENTATION; INTERFEROMETRY; LIGHT; MATERIALS TESTING; METHODOLOGY; RADIATION SCATTERING; TELECOMMUNICATION;

HYDROGEN; INTERFEROMETRY; LIGHT; MATERIALS TESTING; SCATTERING, RADIATION; SILICON; TELECOMMUNICATIONS;

EID: 77952695059     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.18.009809     Document Type: Article

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