Influence of three-photon absorption on mid-infrared cross-phase modulation in silicon-on-sapphire waveguides

Optics Express

Volumn 21, Issue 2, 2013, Pages 1840-1848

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

^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

INFRARED DEVICES; LIGHT ABSORPTION; MULTIPHOTON PROCESSES; PHASE MODULATION; PUMPS; SYSTEMS ENGINEERING; WAVEGUIDES;

CROSS-PHASE MODULATIONS; FREE-CARRIER EFFECTS; FREQUENCY SHIFT; MIDINFRARED; NONLINEAR LOSS; PEAK INTENSITY; PULSE PROPAGATION; RED SHIFT; SIGNAL PULSE; SIGNAL SPECTRUM; SILICON-ON-SAPPHIRE; TEMPORAL PROFILE; THREE PHOTON ABSORPTION; THREE-PHOTON ABSORPTION (3PA); WAVELENGTH REGIONS;

OPTICAL PUMPING;

ALUMINUM OXIDE; SILICON;

ABSORPTION; ARTICLE; CHEMISTRY; EQUIPMENT; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; EQUIPMENT FAILURE; INFRARED RADIATION; PHOTON; RADIATION EXPOSURE; SURFACE PLASMON RESONANCE;

ABSORPTION; ALUMINUM OXIDE; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; EQUIPMENT FAILURE ANALYSIS; INFRARED RAYS; PHOTONS; SILICON; SURFACE PLASMON RESONANCE;

MLCS; MLOWN;

EID: 84874049367     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.21.001840     Document Type: Article

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