Inducing and harnessing stimulated Brillouin scattering in photonic integrated circuits

Advances in Optics and Photonics

Volumn 5, Issue 4, 2013, Pages 536-587

  Eggleton, Benjamin J ^a   Poulton, Christopher G ^a,b   Pant, Ravi ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY SYDNEY   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTIC WAVE VELOCITY; PHOTONIC INTEGRATION TECHNOLOGY; PHOTONICS; REFRACTIVE INDEX; SIGNAL PROCESSING;

CHIP-SCALE DEVICES; INTEGRATED PHOTONIC CIRCUIT; MICROWAVE SIGNAL PROCESSING; NONRECIPROCAL DEVICES; PHOTONIC INTEGRATED CIRCUITS; PHOTONIC INTEGRATIONS; STIMULATED BRILLOUIN SCATTERING (SBS); STRINGENT REQUIREMENT;

STIMULATED BRILLOUIN SCATTERING;

EID: 84891515575     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19438206     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/AOP.5.000536     Document Type: Article

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