All-optical modulation using two-photon absorption in silicon core optical fibers

Optics Express

Volumn 19, Issue 20, 2011, Pages 19078-19083

  Mehta, P ^a   Healy, N ^a   Day, T D ^b   Sparks, J R ^b   Sazio, P J A ^a   Badding, J V ^b   Peacock, A C ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHAMPTON   (United Kingdom)

^b PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

LIGHT ABSORPTION; LIGHT MODULATION; LUMINESCENCE OF ORGANIC SOLIDS; NONLINEAR EQUATIONS; OPTICAL FIBERS; PHOTONS; SIGNAL PROCESSING; TWO PHOTON PROCESSES;

ALL-OPTICAL; EXTINCTION RATIOS; HIGH-SPEED SIGNAL PROCESSING; NONLINEAR ABSORPTIONS; PROPAGATION EQUATIONS; PUMP-PROBE EXPERIMENTS; SILICON CORES; TWO-PHOTON ABSORPTIONS;

AMORPHOUS SILICON;

GLASS FIBER; SILICON;

ARTICLE; CHEMISTRY; COMPUTER AIDED DESIGN; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; INSTRUMENTATION; PHOTON; RADIATION SCATTERING; REFRACTOMETRY;

COMPUTER-AIDED DESIGN; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; OPTICAL FIBERS; PHOTONS; REFRACTOMETRY; SCATTERING, RADIATION; SILICON;

EID: 80053280309     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.19.019078     Document Type: Article

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