Dispersion engineering of a silicon-nanocrystal-based slot waveguide for broadband wavelength conversion

Applied Optics

Volumn 50, Issue 9, 2011, Pages 1260-1265

  Liu, Qiang ^a   Gao, Shiming ^a   Li, Zhiqiang ^a   Xie, Yanqiao ^a   He, Sailing ^a  

^a ZHEJIANG UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FOUR WAVE MIXING; NANOCLUSTERS; NANOCRYSTALS; NONLINEAR OPTICS; OPTICAL WAVEGUIDES; WAVEGUIDES;

DISPERSION ENGINEERING; EFFECTIVE MODE AREAS; FLAT DISPERSION; NONLINEAR INTERACTIONS; NUMERICAL RESULTS; OPTICAL NON-LINEAR MATERIALS; SILICON NANOCRYSTALS; WAVEGUIDE DIMENSIONS;

DISPERSION (WAVES);

EID: 79952808527     PISSN: 1559128X     EISSN: 15394522     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/AO.50.001260     Document Type: Article

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