Phase-sensitive amplification of light in a χ(3) photonic chip using a dispersion engineered chalcogenide ridge waveguide

Optics Express

Volumn 21, Issue 7, 2013, Pages 7926-7933

  Neo, Richard ^a   Schröder, Jochen ^a   Paquot, Yvan ^a   Choi, Duk Yong ^b   Madden, Steve ^b   Luther Davies, Barry ^b   Eggleton, Benjamin J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY   (Australia)

^b AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMPLIFICATION; RIDGE WAVEGUIDES;

IDLER WAVES; ON CHIPS; PARAMETRIC PROCESS; PHASE-SENSITIVE; PHASE-SENSITIVE AMPLIFICATIONS; PHOTONIC CHIPS; PULSED SOURCE;

OPTICAL PUMPING;

CHALCOGEN;

AMPLIFIER; ARTICLE; CHEMISTRY; EQUIPMENT; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; EQUIPMENT FAILURE; LASER; PHOTON; REFRACTOMETRY; SURFACE PLASMON RESONANCE;

AMPLIFIERS, ELECTRONIC; CHALCOGENS; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; EQUIPMENT FAILURE ANALYSIS; LASERS; PHOTONS; REFRACTOMETRY; SURFACE PLASMON RESONANCE;

EID: 84875983994     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.21.007926     Document Type: Article

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