Ultra-broadband one-to-two wavelength conversion using low-phase- mismatching fourwave mixing in silicon waveguides

Optics Express

Volumn 18, Issue 11, 2010, Pages 11898-11903

  Gao, Shiming ^a,b   Tien, En Kuang ^b   Song, Qi ^b   Huang, Yuewang ^b   Boyraz, Ozdal ^b  

^a ZHEJIANG UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b University of California at Irvine   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BANDWIDTH; FOUR WAVE MIXING; PUMPS; WAVEGUIDES;

NON-DEGENERATE FOUR WAVE MIXING; PHASE MISMATCH; SILICON WAVEGUIDE; TELECOMMUNICATION BANDS; THEORETICAL ESTIMATION; TWO WAVELENGTH; TWO-PUMP; ULTRA-BROADBAND; WAVEGUIDE DISPERSIONS; WAVELENGTH CONVERSION; WAVELENGTH TUNABLE;

TELECOMMUNICATION SYSTEMS;

SILICON;

ARTICLE; CHEMISTRY; EQUIPMENT; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; INSTRUMENTATION; REFRACTOMETRY; TELECOMMUNICATION;

EQUIPMENT DESIGN; EQUIPMENT FAILURE ANALYSIS; REFRACTOMETRY; SILICON; TELECOMMUNICATIONS;

EID: 77952803892     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.18.011898     Document Type: Article

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