Mid-infrared photonic crystal waveguides in silicon

Optics Express

Volumn 20, Issue 28, 2012, Pages 29361-29368

  Reimer, Christian ^a,b   Nedeljkovic, Milos ^c   Stothard, David J M ^b   Esnault, Matthieu O S ^b   Reardon, Christopher ^b   O'Faolain, Liam ^b   Dunn, Malcolm ^b   Mashanovich, Goran Z ^c   Krauss, Thomas F ^b  

^a INRS EMT   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ST ANDREWS   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHAMPTON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

INFRARED DEVICES; LASER OPTICS; OPTICAL WAVEGUIDES; QUANTUM CASCADE LASERS;

DISPERSION MEASUREMENTS; FREE-SPACE OPTICAL; GROUP VELOCITIES; GUIDED MODES; INTRACAVITIES; MIDINFRARED; PHOTONIC CRYSTAL WAVEGUIDE; PROPAGATION LOSS; SILICON ON INSULATOR; WAVELENGTH REGIMES;

OPTICAL PARAMETRIC OSCILLATORS;

EID: 84872026736     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.20.029361     Document Type: Article

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