Engineering nonlinearities in nanoscale optical systems: Physics and applications in dispersion-engineered silicon nanophotonic wires

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Volumn 1, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 162-235

  Osgood, R M ^a   Panoiu, N C ^b   Dadap, J I ^a   Liu, Xiaoping ^a   Chen, Xiaogang ^a   Hsieh, I Wei ^a   Dulkeith, E ^c,d   Green, W M J ^c   Vlasov, Y A ^c  

^a Columbia University ^*  (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

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

^d Detecon Inc USA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

OPTICAL FIBERS; OPTICAL PROPERTIES; PHOTONIC CRYSTAL FIBERS; SILICON; WAVEGUIDES; WIRE;

CHARACTERISTIC LENGTH; DISPERSIVE PROPERTIES; EMERGING APPLICATIONS; LINEAR AND NONLINEAR OPTICAL PROPERTIES; NONLINEAR OPTICAL DEVICES; NONLINEAR OPTICAL EFFECTS; THIRD-ORDER NON-LINEARITY; THIRD-ORDER SUSCEPTIBILITY;

NONLINEAR OPTICS;

EID: 84884667896     PISSN: None     EISSN: 21622701     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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