Analytical study of pulse amplification in silicon Raman amplifiers

Optics Express

Volumn 18, Issue 17, 2010, Pages 18324-18338

  Rukhlenko, Ivan D ^a   Premaratne, Malin ^a   Garanovich, Ivan L ^b   Sukhorukov, Andrey A ^b   Agrawal, Govind P ^c  

^a MONASH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ROCHESTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMPLIFICATION; ANTENNAS; DISPERSION (WAVES); GAUSSIAN DISTRIBUTION; LIGHT AMPLIFIERS; LIGHT PULSE GENERATORS; PULSE AMPLIFIERS; PUMPING (LASER); PUMPS; RAMAN SCATTERING; SIGNAL PROCESSING; SLOW LIGHT; SOLITONS; WAVE EQUATIONS;

ANALYTIC EXPRESSIONS; ANALYTICAL EXPRESSIONS; ANALYTICAL FORMULATION; ARBITRARY PULSE; CHIRPED GAUSSIAN PULSE; CONTINUOUS-WAVE LASER BEAM; DISPERSION EFFECT; DISPERSION PARAMETERS; EXACT FORMULAS; GAUSSIAN PULSE; GAUSSIANS; GROUP VELOCITIES; LINEAR CHIRP; LORENTZIAN SHAPES; NONLINEAR PROCESS; NUMERICAL APPROACHES; OPTICAL AMPLIFICATIONS; OPTICAL DELAY; OPTICAL PULSE; PICOSECONDS; PULSE AMPLIFICATION; RAMAN DISPERSION; RAMAN GAIN; REALISTIC CONDITIONS; SIGNAL AMPLIFICATIONS; SIGNAL DELAYS; SIGNAL GAIN; SIGNAL PULSE; SILICON PHOTONICS; SILICON RAMAN AMPLIFIER; SOLITON-LIKE; SOLITON-LIKE PROPAGATION; TEMPORAL BROADENING; TEMPORAL WIDTH;

PULSED LASER APPLICATIONS;

SILICON;

ARTICLE; CHEMISTRY; INSTRUMENTATION; LIGHT; METHODOLOGY; NONLINEAR SYSTEM; RAMAN SPECTROMETRY; SIGNAL PROCESSING; THEORETICAL MODEL;

LIGHT; MODELS, THEORETICAL; NONLINEAR DYNAMICS; SIGNAL PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; SILICON; SPECTRUM ANALYSIS, RAMAN;

EID: 77956366080     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.18.018324     Document Type: Article

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