A silicon-based widely tunable short-wave infrared optical parametric oscillator

Optics Express

Volumn 21, Issue 5, 2013, Pages 5931-5940

  Kuyken, Bart ^a   Liu, Xiaoping ^b   Osgood, Richard M ^b   Baets, Roel ^a   Roelkens, Günther ^a   Green, William M J ^c  

^a GHENT UNIVERSITY   (Belgium)

^b Ghent University ^*  (United States)

^c IBM T J WATSON RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

INFRARED RADIATION; OPTICAL PARAMETRIC OSCILLATORS; OPTICAL PUMPING; PHOTONIC DEVICES; SILICON ON INSULATOR TECHNOLOGY; WIRE;

BROADBAND RESPONSE; PARAMETRIC GAIN; PHOTONIC WIRES; SHORT WAVE INFRARED; SILICON ON INSULATOR; SILICON-BASED; SINGLE PASS; SYNCHRONOUSLY PUMPED OPTICAL PARAMETRIC OSCILLATOR; TUNABLES; WIDELY TUNABLE;

SILICON PHOTONICS;

EID: 84875182158     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.21.005931     Document Type: Article

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