Ultrabroadband flat dispersion tailoring of dualslot silicon waveguides

Optics Express

Volumn 20, Issue 14, 2012, Pages 15899-15907

  Zhu, Ming ^a   Liu, Hongjun ^a   Li, Xuefeng ^b   Huang, Nan ^a   Sun, Qibing ^a   Wen, Jin ^a   Wang, Zhaolu ^a  

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

^b XI AN UNIVERSITY OF POSTS AND TELECOMMUNICATIONS   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BANDWIDTH; DISPERSIONS; ELECTROMAGNETIC PULSE; INFRARED DEVICES; OPTICAL PARAMETRIC OSCILLATORS; OPTICAL PUMPING; SIGNAL PROCESSING;

FLAT DISPERSION; HYBRID WAVEGUIDES; MATERIAL DISPERSIONS; MID-INFRARED REGIONS; MODE TRANSITIONS; NEAR INFRARED REGION; NONLINEAR COEFFICIENT; PHASE-MATCHING CONDITION; SIGNAL PROCESSING APPLICATIONS; SILICON WAVEGUIDE; STRUCTURAL PARAMETER; SUPERCONTINUUM; ULTRA-BROADBAND; ZERO-DISPERSION WAVELENGTH;

WAVEGUIDES;

EID: 84863745685     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.20.015899     Document Type: Article

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