Highly efficient nonlinearity reduction in siliconon-insulator waveguides using vertical slots

Optics Express

Volumn 18, Issue 21, 2010, Pages 22061-22066

  Yue, Yang ^a   Zhang, Lin ^a   Wang, Jian ^a   Beausoleil, Raymond G ^b   Willner, Alan E ^a  

^a University of Southern California ^*  (United States)

^b HEWLETT PACKARD LABORATORIES   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHROMATIC DISPERSION;

NONLINEAR COEFFICIENT; NONLINEARITY REDUCTION; PARAMETRIC EFFECTS; PHASE MISMATCH; SILICON ON INSULATOR WAVEGUIDE; SILICON-ON-INSULATORS; STRIP WAVEGUIDES; WAVELENGTH RANGES;

WAVEGUIDES;

EID: 78049497394     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.18.022061     Document Type: Article

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