Self-phase modulation and nonlinear loss in silicon nanophotonic wires near the mid-infrared two-photon absorption edge

Optics Express

Volumn 19, Issue 8, 2011, Pages 7778-7789

  Liu, Xiaoping ^a   Driscoll, Jeffrey B ^a   Dadap, Jerry I ^a   Osgood Jr , Richard M ^a   Assefa, Solomon ^b   Vlasov, Yurii A ^b   Green, William M J ^b  

^a Department of Electrical Engineering Columbia University 1300 S W Mudd Building ^*  (United States)

^b IBM T J WATSON RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ABSORPTION; INFRARED DEVICES; LIGHT ABSORPTION; LUMINESCENCE OF ORGANIC SOLIDS; NANOPHOTONICS; PHOTONS; REFRACTIVE INDEX; SELF PHASE MODULATION; SILICON; TWO PHOTON PROCESSES; WAVEGUIDES; WIRE;

BLUE SHIFT; BULK SILICON; EXCITATION WAVELENGTH; EXPERIMENTAL DATA; EXPERIMENTAL STUDIES; FREE CARRIERS; HIGH INPUT POWER; MIDINFRARED; NONLINEAR LOSS; NONLINEAR REFRACTIVE INDEX; NORMAL DISPERSION; NUMERICAL SIMULATION; PICO-SECOND PULSE; PRIOR MEASUREMENT; PULSE DENSITY; PULSE PROPAGATION; SCALED WAVEGUIDES; SPECTRAL FRINGES; TWO-PHOTON ABSORPTIONS; WAVELENGTH RANGES;

DISPERSION (WAVES);

EID: 79953868374     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.19.007778     Document Type: Article

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