Ultra-high four wave mixing efficiency in slot waveguides with silicon nanocrystals

Applied Physics Letters

Volumn 99, Issue 19, 2011, Pages

  Trita, A ^a,c   Lacava, C ^a   Minzioni, P ^a   Colonna, J P ^b   Gautier, P ^b   Fedeli, J M ^b   Cristiani, I ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PAVIA   (Italy)

^b CEA LETI   (France)

^c GHENT UNIVERSITY   (Belgium)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EXTREME VALUE; FABRICATION PROCEDURE; LOSS REDUCTION; NON-LINEARITY; NONLINEAR COEFFICIENT; OPTICAL CONFINEMENT; SCIENTIFIC LITERATURE; SILICON NANOCRYSTALS; SLOT WAVEGUIDE; ULTRA-HIGH; WAVE MIXING;

CONVERSION EFFICIENCY; NANOCRYSTALS; WAVEGUIDES;

FOUR WAVE MIXING;

EID: 81155125129     PISSN: 00036951     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1063/1.3659694     Document Type: Article

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