Low-power continuous-wave generation of visible harmonics in silicon photonic crystal nanocavities

Optics Express

Volumn 18, Issue 25, 2010, Pages 26613-26624

  Galli, Matteo ^a   Gerace, Dario ^a   Welna, Karl ^b   Krauss, Thomas F ^b   O'Faolain, Liam ^b   Guizzetti, Giorgio ^a   Claudio Andreani, Lucio ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PAVIA   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ST ANDREWS   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CONVERSION EFFICIENCY; HARMONIC GENERATION; OPTICAL FREQUENCY CONVERSION; PHOTOEXCITATION; PHOTONIC CRYSTALS; PHOTONIC DEVICES;

BULK EFFECT; CAVITY QUALITY; CONTINUOUS WAVE GENERATION; CONTINUOUS WAVES; DUAL WAVELENGTH; EMISSION PATTERN; FREQUENCY CONVERSIONS; LOW POWER; MICROWATTS; MULTIPLE HARMONIC GENERATIONS; OPTICAL EXCITATIONS; PUMP POWER; SCALING BEHAVIOR; SECOND-HARMONIC; SILICON CHIP; SILICON PHOTONIC CRYSTALS; TELECOM BANDS; THIRD HARMONIC; THIRD ORDER; THIRD-HARMONIC GENERATION; WIDELY TUNABLE;

HARMONIC ANALYSIS;

NANOMATERIAL; SILICON;

ARTICLE; CHEMISTRY; COMPUTER AIDED DESIGN; EQUIPMENT; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; ILLUMINATION; INSTRUMENTATION; NANOTECHNOLOGY; REFRACTOMETRY; SOLID STATE LASER; ULTRASTRUCTURE;

COMPUTER-AIDED DESIGN; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; EQUIPMENT FAILURE ANALYSIS; LASERS, SOLID-STATE; LIGHTING; NANOSTRUCTURES; NANOTECHNOLOGY; REFRACTOMETRY; SILICON;

EID: 78650042371     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.18.026613     Document Type: Article

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