Performance evaluation of nondegenerate wavelength conversion in a silicon nanowire waveguide

Journal of Lightwave Technology

Volumn 28, Issue 21, 2010, Pages 3079-3085

  Gao, Shiming ^a,b   Li, Zhiqiang ^a   Tien, En Kuang ^b   He, Sailing ^a   Boyraz, Ozdal ^b  

^a ZHEJIANG UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b University of California at Irvine   (United States)

Author keywords

Nonlinear optics; optical frequency conversion; optical mixing; optical planar waveguides; silicon on insulator technology

Indexed keywords

NONDEGENERATE FOUR-WAVE MIXING; NONLINEAR LOSS; OPTICAL FREQUENCY; OPTICAL MIXING; OPTICAL PLANAR WAVEGUIDES; PERFORMANCE EVALUATION; PUMP POWER; SILICON NANOWIRES; THEORETICAL MODELS; TWO WAVELENGTH; TWO-PUMP; WAVELENGTH CONVERSION;

BANDWIDTH; CONVERSION EFFICIENCY; FOUR WAVE MIXING; NANOWIRES; NATURAL FREQUENCIES; OPTICAL MATERIALS; PLANAR WAVEGUIDES; SILICON ON INSULATOR TECHNOLOGY;

OPTICAL FREQUENCY CONVERSION;

EID: 77958551342     PISSN: 07338724     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/JLT.2010.2076333     Document Type: Article

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