Design for broadband on-chip isolator using stimulated Brillouin scattering in dispersion-engineered chalcogenide waveguides

Optics Express

Volumn 20, Issue 19, 2012, Pages 21235-21246

  Poulton, Christopher G ^a,b   Pant, Ravi ^a,c   Byrnes, Adam ^a,c   Fan, Shanhui ^a,c,d   Steel, M J ^a,e   Eggleton, Benjamin J ^a,c  

^a CENTRE FOR ULTRAHIGH BANDWIDTH DEVICES FOR OPTICAL SYSTEMS CUDOS   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY SYDNEY   (Australia)

^c UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY   (Australia)

^d Stanford University   (United States)

^e MACQUARIE UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTICS; BANDWIDTH; SILICA; STIMULATED BRILLOUIN SCATTERING;

CHIP-SCALE; GROUP VELOCITIES; MODE CONVERSIONS; MULTI-MODED; ON CHIPS; ON-CHIP ISOLATION; OPTICAL MODES; OPTO-ACOUSTIC; RIB WAVEGUIDES; SILICA MATRIX;

WAVEGUIDES;

EID: 84866250850     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.20.021235     Document Type: Article

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