Soliton self-frequency shift performance in As2S3 waveguides

Optics Express

Volumn 18, Issue 14, 2010, Pages 14960-14968

  Judge, Alexander C ^a   Dekker, Stephen A ^a   Pant, Ravi ^a   De Martijn Sterke, C ^a   Eggleton, Benjamin J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANALOG TO DIGITAL CONVERSION; CHALCOGENIDES; OPTICAL FREQUENCY CONVERSION; RIDGE WAVEGUIDES; SILICA; SOLITONS;

FUNDAMENTAL SOLITONS; MID-INFRARED WAVELENGTHS; NONLINEAR CHALCOGENIDES; NONLINEAR PROCESSING; OPTICAL ANALOGUES; PEAK POWER PULSE; REALISTIC CONDITIONS; SOLITON SELF-FREQUENCY SHIFT;

ARSENIC COMPOUNDS;

EID: 77956315935     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.18.014960     Document Type: Article

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