Highly efficient CW parametric conversion at 1550 nm in SOI waveguides by reverse biased pi-N junction

Optics Express

Volumn 20, Issue 12, 2012, Pages 13100-13107

  Gajda, Andrzej ^a   Zimmermann, Lars ^b   Jazayerifar, Mahmoud ^a   Winzer, Georg ^a   Tian, Hui ^b   Elschner, Robert ^c   Richter, Thomas ^c   Schubert, Colja ^c   Tillack, Bernd ^a,b   Petermann, Klaus ^a  

^a TECHNISCHE UNIVERSITÄT BERLIN   (Germany)

^b IHP   (Germany)

^c FRAUNHOFER HEINRICH HERTZ INSTITUTE   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CONVERSION EFFICIENCY; EXPERIMENTS;

1550 NM; CONTINUOUS WAVES; P-I-N JUNCTIONS; P-I-N STRUCTURE; PEAK EFFICIENCY; PIN DIODE; SILICON-ON-INSULATORS; SOI WAVEGUIDES;

WAVEGUIDES;

EID: 84863734352     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.20.013100     Document Type: Article

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