Ultrafast tilting of the dispersion of a photonic crystal and adiabatic spectral compression of light pulses

Physical Review Letters

Volumn 108, Issue 3, 2012, Pages

  Beggs, Daryl M ^a,b   Krauss, Thomas F ^b   Kuipers, L ^a   Kampfrath, Tobias ^a,c  

^a FOM INSTITUTE AMOLF   (Netherlands)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ST ANDREWS   (United Kingdom)

^c FRITZ HABER INSTITUT DER MAX PLANCK GESELLSCHAFT   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CROSS SECTION; DISPERSION CURVES; EIGEN MODES; FEMTOSECOND PUMP PULSE; LIGHT PULSE; NANOMETRICS; PHOTONIC CRYSTAL WAVEGUIDE; PUMP BEAMS; SHADOW MASK; SPATIAL OVERLAP; SPECTRAL COMPRESSION; ULTRA-FAST;

LIGHT; LIGHT TRANSMISSION; PHOTONIC CRYSTALS; PUMPS; WAVEGUIDES;

OPTICAL PUMPING;

EID: 84856043770     PISSN: 00319007     EISSN: 10797114     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.108.033902     Document Type: Article

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