Mid-infrared wavelength conversion in silicon waveguides pumped by silica-fiber-based source

IEEE Journal on Selected Topics in Quantum Electronics

Volumn 18, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 612-620

  Zlatanovic, Sanja ^a   Park, Jung S ^a,b   Gholami, Faezeh ^a   Boggio, Jose Manuel Chavez ^a   Moro, Slaven ^a   Alic, Nikola ^c   Mookherjea, Shayan ^a   Radic, Stojan ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b INTEL CORPORATION   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Fiber nonlinear optics; four wave mixing (FWM); mid infrared silicon lasers

Indexed keywords

FIBER NONLINEAR OPTICS; FREE-SPACE COMMUNICATION; FREQUENCY GENERATION; HIGH BANDWIDTH; LIGHT DETECTION AND RANGING; MID WAVE INFRARED (MWIR); MID-INFRARED WAVELENGTHS; MIDINFRARED; MODULATION CAPABILITY; NARROW LINEWIDTH LASERS; NARROW-LINE WIDTH; NON-LINEAR OPTICAL PROPERTIES; NONLINEAR ABSORPTIONS; POTENTIAL FEATURES; SILICA FIBERS; SILICON WAVEGUIDE; SPECTRAL DOMAINS; TELECOM WAVELENGTHS; WIDELY TUNABLE LASERS;

INFRARED DEVICES; INFRARED RADIATION; LASERS; LIGHT SOURCES; NONLINEAR OPTICS; OPTICAL FIBER COMMUNICATION; OPTICAL RADAR; REMOTE SENSING;

SILICA;

EID: 84858450266     PISSN: 1077260X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/JSTQE.2011.2119295     Document Type: Article

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