Near-zero anomalous dispersion Ge11.5As24Se64.5 glass nanowires for correlated photon pair generation: Design and analysis

Optics Express

Volumn 20, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 776-786

  Gai, X ^a   Wang, R P ^a   Xiong, C ^b   Steel, M J ^c   Eggleton, B J ^b   Luther Davies, B ^a  

^a AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY   (Australia)

^c MACQUARIE UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATOMIC LAYER DEPOSITION; DISPERSIONS; ERRORS; FABRICATION; FOUR WAVE MIXING; GERMANIUM; GLASS; NANOWIRES; PHASE CHANGE MEMORY; PHOTONS; SELENIUM COMPOUNDS; SILICON COMPOUNDS; TERAHERTZ WAVES; WAVEGUIDES;

ANOMALOUS DISPERSION; CORRELATED PHOTON PAIRS; DESIGN AND ANALYSIS; DETUNED; DOUBLE-CLAD; FABRICATION ERRORS; FABRICATION TOLERANCES; HIGHLY NONLINEAR; NANOWIRE WAVEGUIDES; PHOTON PAIRS; PUMP WAVELENGTH;

DISPERSION (WAVES);

ALUMINUM OXIDE; ARSENIC; GERMANIUM; GLASS; NANOWIRE; SELENIUM; SILICON DIOXIDE;

ARTICLE; CHEMISTRY; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; INSTRUMENTATION; MATERIALS; METHODOLOGY; NANOTECHNOLOGY; OPTICS; PHOTON; THEORETICAL MODEL;

ALUMINUM OXIDE; ARSENIC; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; GERMANIUM; GLASS; MANUFACTURED MATERIALS; MODELS, THEORETICAL; NANOTECHNOLOGY; NANOWIRES; OPTICS AND PHOTONICS; PHOTONS; SELENIUM; SILICON DIOXIDE;

EID: 84855927223     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.20.000776     Document Type: Article

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