Influence of carrier transport on Raman amplification in silicon waveguides

Optics Express

Volumn 18, Issue 12, 2010, Pages 12569-12580

  Singh, Aashish ^a  

^a MONASH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMPLIFICATION; CARRIER TRANSPORT; DIFFERENTIAL EQUATIONS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; WAVEGUIDES;

ANALYTICAL MODEL; COUPLED DIFFERENTIAL EQUATIONS; FREE CARRIER DENSITY; OPTICAL MODES; OPTICAL SIGNALS; RAMAN AMPLIFICATION; SILICON WAVEGUIDE; SIMULATION AND ANALYSIS; STIMULATED RAMAN AMPLIFICATION; TRANSIT TIME;

CARRIER LIFETIME;

EID: 77953556662     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.18.012569     Document Type: Article

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