Tailorable stimulated Brillouin scattering in nanoscale silicon waveguides

Nature Communications

Volumn 4, Issue , 2013, Pages

  Shin, Heedeuk ^a   Qiu, Wenjun ^b   Jarecki, Robert ^a   Cox, Jonathan A ^a   Olsson III, Roy H ^a   Starbuck, Andrew ^a   Wang, Zheng ^c   Rakich, Peter T ^d  

^a SANDIA NATIONAL LABORATORIES   (United States)

^b MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^c The University of Texas at Austin   (United States)

^d Yale University   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

SILICON;

HYBRIDIZATION; NANOTECHNOLOGY; NONLINEAR WAVE; NONLINEARITY; SCATTERING; SIGNAL; SILICON;

ARTICLE; GENERAL DEVICE; LIGHT SCATTERING; MICROELECTROMECHANICAL SYSTEM; PHONON; PHOTON; RADIATION; SIGNAL PROCESSING; SILICON WAVEGUIDE; STIMULATED BRILLOUIN SCATTERING;

EID: 84879957493     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20411723     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/ncomms2943     Document Type: Article

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