Mechanically exfoliated graphene for four-wave-mixing-based wavelength conversion

IEEE Photonics Technology Letters

Volumn 24, Issue 20, 2012, Pages 1792-1794

  Xu, Bo ^a   Martinez, Amos ^a   Yamashita, Shinji ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

Author keywords

Carbon nanotube; four wave mixing (FWM); grapheme; nonlinearity

Indexed keywords

ALL FIBER; DEPOSITION METHODS; EXPERIMENTAL OBSERVATION; FOUR-WAVE-MIXING (FWM); GRAPHEME; NON-LINEAR DEVICES; NON-LINEARITY; THIRD-ORDER NON-LINEARITY;

CARBON NANOTUBES; DEPOSITION; GRAPHENE; THIN FILMS; VAPOR DEPOSITION;

NONLINEAR OPTICS;

EID: 84866893214     PISSN: 10411135     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/LPT.2012.2210035     Document Type: Article

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