Mid-infrared optical parametric amplifier using silicon nanophotonic waveguides

Nature Photonics

Volumn 4, Issue 8, 2010, Pages 557-560

  Liu, Xiaoping ^a   Osgood Jr , Richard M ^a   Vlasov, Yurii A ^b   Green, William M J ^b  

^a 1300 SW Mudd Building ^*  (United States)

^b IBM T J WATSON RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALL-OPTICAL SIGNAL PROCESSING; NANOPHOTONIC WAVEGUIDES; NANOSCALE ENGINEERING; NONLINEAR OPTICAL EFFECTS; OPTICAL NONLINEARITY; OPTICAL TELECOMMUNICATION; TWO-PHOTON ABSORPTIONS; WAVEGUIDE DISPERSIONS;

FOUR WAVE MIXING; INFRARED DEVICES; LIGHT AMPLIFIERS; NANOPHOTONICS; NEXT GENERATION NETWORKS; OPTICAL PARAMETRIC AMPLIFIERS; PARAMETRIC OSCILLATORS; SILICON; TELECOMMUNICATION; TELECOMMUNICATION SYSTEMS; TWO PHOTON PROCESSES; WAVEGUIDES;

OPTICAL SIGNAL PROCESSING;

EID: 77955195653     PISSN: 17494885     EISSN: 17494893     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nphoton.2010.119     Document Type: Article

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