Ultrafast optical control using the Kerr nonlinearity in hydrogenated amorphous silicon microcylindrical resonators

Scientific Reports

Volumn 3, Issue , 2013, Pages

  Vukovic, N ^a   Healy, N ^a   Suhailin, F H ^a,b   Mehta, P ^a   Day, T D ^c   Badding, J V ^c   Peacock, A C ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHAMPTON   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITI MALAYSIA TERENGGANU   (Malaysia)

^c PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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EID: 84885351286     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20452322     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/srep02885     Document Type: Article

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