Influence of spectral broadening on femtosecond wavelength conversion based on four-wave mixing in silicon waveguides

Applied Optics

Volumn 50, Issue 28, 2011, Pages 5430-5436

  Wang, Zhaolu ^a,b   Liu, Hongjun ^a   Huang, Nan ^a   Sun, Qibing ^a   Wen, Jin ^a,b  

^a XI AN INSTITUTE OF OPTICS AND PRECISION MECHANICS   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CHINESE ACADEMY OF SCIENCES   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CONVERSION EFFICIENCY; EFFICIENCY; ELECTROMAGNETIC PULSE; MODULATION; OPTICAL PUMPING; PHASE MODULATION; PULSE REPETITION RATE; SELF PHASE MODULATION; ULTRASHORT PULSES; WAVEGUIDES;

CROSS PHASE MODULATION; FOUR-WAVE-MIXING PROCESS; HIGHER EFFICIENCY; SILICON RIB WAVEGUIDES; SILICON WAVEGUIDE; SPECTRAL BROADENING; TELECOMMUNICATION BANDS; WAVELENGTH CONVERTER;

FOUR WAVE MIXING;

EID: 80053388523     PISSN: 1559128X     EISSN: 15394522     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/AO.50.005430     Document Type: Article

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