Modulational instability in a silicon-on-insulator directional coupler: Role of the coupling-induced group velocity dispersion

Optics Letters

Volumn 37, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 668-670

  Ding, W ^a   Staines, O K ^a   Hobbs, G D ^a   Gorbach, A V ^a   De Nobriga, C ^a   Wadsworth, W J ^a   Knight, J C ^a   Skryabin, D V ^a   Strain, M J ^b   Sorel, M ^b   De La Rue, R M ^b,c  

^a University of Bath   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GLASGOW   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MALAYA   (Malaysia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EVANESCENT COUPLING; MODULATIONAL INSTABILITY; SILICON ON INSULATOR; SILICON PHOTONICS; SILICON-ON-INSULATORS; SOI WAVEGUIDES; SUB-WAVELENGTH; SUPERMODES;

GROUP VELOCITY DISPERSION; OPTICAL WAVEGUIDES; SEPARATION;

DIRECTIONAL COUPLERS;

EID: 84857259219     PISSN: 01469592     EISSN: 15394794     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OL.37.000668     Document Type: Article

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