Four-wave mixing in slow light engineered silicon photonic crystal waveguides

Optics Express

Volumn 18, Issue 22, 2010, Pages 22915-22927

  Monat, C ^a   Ebnali Heidari, M ^b   Grillet, C ^a   Corcoran, B ^a   Eggleton, B J ^a   White, T P ^c   O'Faolain, L ^c   Li, J ^c   Krauss, T F ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY   (Australia)

^b SHAHREKORD UNIVERSITY   (Iran)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ST ANDREWS   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CONVERSION EFFICIENCY; DISPERSION (WAVES); FOUR WAVE MIXING; LASER OPTICS; LIGHT VELOCITY; NANOWIRES; OPTICAL WAVEGUIDES; PHOTONIC CRYSTALS; PHOTONIC DEVICES; PROBES; WAVEGUIDES;

CONTINUOUS WAVES; DETUNINGS; FLAT BAND; GROUP VELOCITIES; LIGHT ENHANCEMENT; NUMERICAL SIMULATION; PUMP POWER; PUMP-PROBE; SI NANOWIRE; SILICON PHOTONIC CRYSTALS;

SLOW LIGHT;

EID: 78149369927     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.18.022915     Document Type: Article

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