Nonlinear propagation in silicon-based plasmonic waveguides from the standpoint of applications

Optics Express

Volumn 19, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 206-217

  Rukhlenko, Ivan D ^a   Premaratne, Malin ^a   Agrawal, Govind P ^b  

^a MONASH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ROCHESTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ABSORPTION; KERR MAGNETOOPTICAL EFFECT; MAGNETIC FIELD EFFECTS; PHOTONIC DEVICES; PLASMONS; TWO PHOTON PROCESSES; WAVEGUIDES;

ELECTRICAL SIGNAL; FREE-CARRIER EFFECTS; KERR EFFECTS; NON-LINEAR OPTICAL; NONLINEAR PROPAGATION; OPTICAL ENERGY; OPTICAL INTENSITIES; PLASMONIC WAVEGUIDES; PLASMONICS; RESEARCH EFFORTS; SILICON PHOTONICS; SILICON-BASED; SUB-WAVELENGTH LOCALIZATION; THIRD-ORDER NON-LINEARITY; TWO-PHOTON ABSORPTIONS;

OPTICAL KERR EFFECT;

EID: 78651359433     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.19.000206     Document Type: Article

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