Ultrafast wavelength conversion via cross-phase modulation in hydrogenated amorphous silicon optical fibers

Optics Express

Volumn 20, Issue 24, 2012, Pages 26110-26116

  Mehta, P ^a   Healy, N ^a   Day, T D ^b   Badding, J V ^b   Peacock, A C ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHAMPTON   (United Kingdom)

^b PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

A-SI:H; CONVERSION PROCESS; CROSS-PHASE MODULATIONS; EXTINCTION RATIOS; FEMTOSECONDS; HYDROGENATED AMORPHOUS SILICON (A-SI:H); KERR NONLINEARITY; NON-LINEAR OPTICAL; NONLINEAR PROPAGATION; PICOSECONDS; PROBE PULSE; PUMP-PROBE EXPERIMENTS; SIGNAL PULSE; SPECTRAL MODULATION; ULTRA-FAST; WAVELENGTH SHIFTING;

AMORPHOUS SILICON; HYDROGENATION; OPTICAL FIBERS; OPTICAL PUMPING; PHASE MODULATION; PROBES; SILICON;

NONLINEAR EQUATIONS;

GLASS FIBER; SILICON;

ARTICLE; CHEMISTRY; COMPARATIVE STUDY; COMPUTER AIDED DESIGN; EQUIPMENT; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; HUMAN; PHOTON; RADIATION SCATTERING; REFRACTOMETRY; THEORETICAL MODEL;

COMPUTER-AIDED DESIGN; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; HUMANS; MODELS, THEORETICAL; OPTICAL FIBERS; PHOTONS; REFRACTOMETRY; SCATTERING, RADIATION; SILICON;

EID: 84870608069     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.20.026110     Document Type: Conference Paper

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