Nonlinear enhancement in photonic crystal slow light waveguides fabricated using CMOS-compatible process

Optics Express

Volumn 19, Issue 22, 2011, Pages 22208-22218

  Shinkawa, Mizuki ^a,b   Ishikura, Norihiro ^a,b   Hama, Yosuke ^a   Suzuki, Keijiro ^a,b   Baba, Toshihiko ^a,b  

^a YOKOHAMA NATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b JAPAN SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY AGENCY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FOUR WAVE MIXING; LASER OPTICS; OPTICAL WAVEGUIDES; PHASE MODULATION; PHOTONIC CRYSTALS; SILICON; TWO PHOTON PROCESSES; WAVEGUIDES;

CMOS COMPATIBLE; GROUP INDEX; LOSS REDUCTION; NON-LINEARITY; NONLINEAR ENHANCEMENT; OPTICAL COUPLINGS; PHOTONIC CRYSTAL WAVEGUIDE; PICO-SECOND PULSE; SI PHOTONICS; SI WIRE WAVEGUIDE; SPOT SIZE CONVERTERS; TRANSMISSION SPECTRUMS; TWO-PHOTON ABSORPTIONS;

SLOW LIGHT;

EID: 80054900831     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.19.022208     Document Type: Article

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