Widely tunable femtosecond optical parametric oscillator based on silicon-on-insulator waveguides

Optics Express

Volumn 20, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 3490-3498

  Wen, Jin ^a   Liu, Hongjun ^a   Huang, Nan ^a   Sun, Qibing ^a   Zhao, Wei ^a  

^a XI AN INSTITUTE OF OPTICS AND PRECISION MECHANICS   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ELECTROMAGNETIC PULSE; OPTICAL PUMPING; WAVEGUIDES;

BROAD-BAND OPTICAL SOURCES; FEMTOSECOND OPTICAL PARAMETRIC OSCILLATORS; FEMTOSECOND PULSE; NON-LINEARITY; OUTPUT SIGNAL; PEAK POWER; PHASE MATCHING CONDITIONS; SILICON ON INSULATOR WAVEGUIDE; SPLIT-STEP FOURIER METHOD; TUNABLE WAVELENGTH; ULTRA-WIDE; WIDELY TUNABLE;

OPTICAL PARAMETRIC OSCILLATORS;

EID: 84863117158     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.20.003490     Document Type: Article

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