Nonlinear transmission properties of hydrogenated amorphous silicon core optical fibers

Optics Express

Volumn 18, Issue 16, 2010, Pages 16826-16831

  Mehta, P ^a   Healy, N ^a   Baril, N F ^b   Sazio, P J A ^a   Badding, J V ^b   Peacock, A C ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHAMPTON   (United Kingdom)

^b PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ABSORPTION; COREMAKING; HYDROGENATION; OPTICAL FIBERS; REFRACTIVE INDEX; TWO PHOTON PROCESSES;

CORE MATERIAL; CRYSTALLINE SILICONS; FREE CARRIER ABSORPTION; HIGH-POWER PULSE; HYDROGENATED AMORPHOUS SILICON; LOW LOSS; NONLINEAR FIGURE OF MERITS; NONLINEAR PROPERTIES; NONLINEAR REFRACTIVE INDEX; NONLINEAR TRANSMISSION; NUMERICAL MODELLING; PULSE PROPAGATION; SILICON PHOTONICS; TWO-PHOTON ABSORPTIONS;

AMORPHOUS SILICON;

GLASS FIBER; HYDROGEN; SILICON;

ARTICLE; CHEMISTRY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; HYDROGENATION; INSTRUMENTATION; LIGHT; NONLINEAR SYSTEM; RADIATION SCATTERING; REFRACTOMETRY; TEMPERATURE;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; HYDROGEN; HYDROGENATION; LIGHT; NONLINEAR DYNAMICS; OPTICAL FIBERS; REFRACTOMETRY; SCATTERING, RADIATION; SILICON; TEMPERATURE;

EID: 77955601621     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.18.016826     Document Type: Article

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