Raman-assisted wavelength conversion in chalcogenide waveguides

IEEE Journal on Selected Topics in Quantum Electronics

Volumn 18, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 646-653

  Huang, Ying ^a   Shum, Perry Ping ^a   Luan, Feng ^a   Tang, Ming ^b  

^a NANYANG TECHNOLOGICAL UNIVERSITY   (Singapore)

^b HUAZHONG UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (China)

Author keywords

Integrated optics; nonlinear optics; Raman scattering; silicon on insulator technology

Indexed keywords

ANTI-STOKES; ANTI-STOKES WAVELENGTHS; COHERENT ANTI-STOKES RAMAN SCATTERING; DISPERSION ENGINEERING; ELECTRONIC SUSCEPTIBILITY; ENERGY EFFICIENT; INTENSITY MODULATIONS; MATERIAL DISPERSIONS; NON-LINEAR DYNAMICS; PHASE-MATCHING CONDITION; PUMP POWER; RAMAN WAVELENGTH CONVERTERS; SILICON WAVEGUIDE; SILICONON-INSULATOR TECHNOLOGY (SOI); WAVEGUIDE DISPERSIONS; WAVELENGTH BAND;

COHERENT SCATTERING; CONVERSION EFFICIENCY; DISPERSION (WAVES); INTEGRATED OPTICS; NONLINEAR OPTICS; PHASE CHANGE MEMORY; PUMPS; RAMAN SCATTERING; RAMAN SPECTROSCOPY; SILICON ON INSULATOR TECHNOLOGY; WAVELENGTH;

WAVEGUIDES;

EID: 84858444334     PISSN: 1077260X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/JSTQE.2011.2128856     Document Type: Article

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