Second-harmonic generation in silicon waveguides strained by silicon nitride

Nature Materials

Volumn 11, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 148-154

  Cazzanelli, M ^a   Bianco, F ^a   Borga, E ^a   Pucker, G ^b   Ghulinyan, M ^b   Degoli, E ^c   Luppi, E ^d   Veniard V ^e   Ossicini, S ^c   Modotto, D ^f   Wabnitz, S ^f   Pierobon, R ^g   Pavesi, L ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TRENTO   (Italy)

^b FONDAZIONE BRUNO KESSLER   (Italy)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MODENA AND REGGIO EMILIA   (Italy)

^d UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^e LABORATOIRE DES SOLIDES IRRADIÉS   (France)

^f UNIVERSITY OF BRESCIA   (Italy)

^g CIVEN   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HARMONIC GENERATION; INFORMATION MANAGEMENT; LIGHT SOURCES; NITRIDES; OPTICAL FREQUENCY CONVERSION; PHOTONIC DEVICES; PHOTONICS; SILICON NITRIDE; STRAINED SILICON; WAVEGUIDES;

FIRST PRINCIPLE CALCULATIONS; INTEGRATED LIGHT SOURCE; MATERIAL ENGINEERING; MID-INFRARED SPECTRA; NONLINEAR SILICON PHOTONICS; SECOND-ORDER NONLINEAR SUSCEPTIBILITY; SECOND-ORDER NONLINEARITY; THIRD-ORDER OPTICAL NONLINEARITIES;

NONLINEAR OPTICS;

EID: 84856084430     PISSN: 14761122     EISSN: 14764660     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nmat3200     Document Type: Article

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