Energy harvesting in silicon Raman amplifiers

IEEE International Conference on Group IV Photonics GFP

Volumn , Issue , 2006, Pages 231-233

  Tsia, K M ^a   Fathpour, S ^a   Jalali, B ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

PHOTONICS; SILICON; TWO PHOTON PROCESSES;

ELECTRICAL POWER; RAMAN AMPLIFICATION; SILICON RAMAN AMPLIFIER; TWO PHOTON ABSORPTION;

ENERGY HARVESTING;

EID: 78649723313     PISSN: 19492081     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/group4.2006.1708223     Document Type: Conference Paper

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