Nonlinear transmission properties of hydrogenated amorphous silicon core fibers towards the mid-infrared regime

Optics Express

Volumn 21, Issue 11, 2013, Pages 13075-13083

  Shen, L ^a   Healy, N ^a   Mehta, P ^a   Day, T D ^b   Sparks, J R ^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

AMORPHOUS SILICON; HYDROGENATION; SILICON; TWO PHOTON PROCESSES;

HYDROGENATED AMORPHOUS SILICON (A-SI:H); NEAR INFRARED; NONLINEAR APPLICATIONS; NONLINEAR FIGURE OF MERITS; NONLINEAR LOSS; NONLINEAR TRANSMISSION; TWO-PHOTON ABSORPTIONS; WAVELENGTH RANGES;

INFRARED DEVICES;

EID: 84878867077     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.21.013075     Document Type: Article

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