Bistability and self-pulsation phenomena in silicon microring resonators based on nonlinear optical effects

Optics Express

Volumn 20, Issue 7, 2012, Pages 7454-7468

  Chen, Shaowu ^a   Zhang, Libin ^a   Fei, Yonghao ^a   Cao, Tongtong ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF SEMICONDUCTORS   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

NONLINEAR OPTICS; OPTICAL RESONATORS; TWO PHOTON PROCESSES;

COUPLED MODE THEORY; CW LIGHT; FREE CARRIER ABSORPTION; FREE CARRIERS; INPUT LIGHT; INPUT POWER; LIGHT INJECTION; LINEAR STABILITY; MICRORING RESONATOR; MODULATION DEPTH; NONLINEAR OPTICAL EFFECTS; OPTICAL INTENSITIES; OSCILLATING FREQUENCIES; SELF PULSATION; TWO-PHOTON ABSORPTIONS; WAVELENGTH DETUNING;

TERNARY SYSTEMS;

SILICON;

ARTICLE; CHEMISTRY; COMPUTER AIDED DESIGN; COMPUTER SIMULATION; ELECTRONICS; EQUIPMENT; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; INSTRUMENTATION; LASER; LIGHT; NONLINEAR SYSTEM; RADIATION SCATTERING; REFRACTOMETRY; TELECOMMUNICATION; THEORETICAL MODEL;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; COMPUTER-AIDED DESIGN; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; EQUIPMENT FAILURE ANALYSIS; LASERS; LIGHT; MINIATURIZATION; MODELS, THEORETICAL; NONLINEAR DYNAMICS; REFRACTOMETRY; SCATTERING, RADIATION; SILICON; TELECOMMUNICATIONS;

EID: 84859383533     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.20.007454     Document Type: Article

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