Nonlinear light propagation in chalcogenide photonic crystal slow light waveguides

Optics Express

Volumn 18, Issue 25, 2010, Pages 26675-26685

  Suzuki, Keijiro ^a,b   Baba, Toshihiko ^a,b  

^a YOKOHAMA NATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b JAPAN SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY AGENCY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FOUR WAVE MIXING; LASER OPTICS; OPTICAL WAVEGUIDES; PHASE MODULATION; PHOTONIC CRYSTALS; SILICA; TWO PHOTON PROCESSES; WAVEGUIDES;

DETAILED DESIGN; FABRICATION PROCESS; HIGH EFFICIENCY; HIGHLY NONLINEAR; NON-LINEAR PARAMETERS; NONLINEAR CHARACTERISTICS; OPTICAL CONFINEMENT; OPTICAL NONLINEARITY; PHOTONIC CRYSTAL WAVEGUIDE; SI PHOTONICS; SILICA FIBERS; TWO-PHOTON ABSORPTIONS;

SLOW LIGHT;

CHALCOGEN; GLASS;

ARTICLE; CHEMISTRY; COMPUTER AIDED DESIGN; COMPUTER SIMULATION; CRYSTALLIZATION; ELECTRONICS; EQUIPMENT; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; FIBER OPTICS; INSTRUMENTATION; REFRACTOMETRY; THEORETICAL MODEL;

CHALCOGENS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; COMPUTER-AIDED DESIGN; CRYSTALLIZATION; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; EQUIPMENT FAILURE ANALYSIS; FIBER OPTIC TECHNOLOGY; GLASS; MINIATURIZATION; MODELS, THEORETICAL; REFRACTOMETRY;

EID: 78650040737     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.18.026675     Document Type: Article

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