Observation of soliton compression in silicon photonic crystals

Nature Communications

Volumn 5, Issue , 2014, Pages

  Blanco Redondo, A ^a,b   Husko, C ^a   Eades, D ^a   Zhang, Y ^a   Li, J ^c   Krauss, T F ^d   Eggleton, B J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY   (Australia)

^b TECNALIA RESEARCH AND INNOVATION   (Spain)

^c SUN YAT SEN UNIVERSITY   (China)

^d UNIVERSITY OF YORK   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

SILICON;

ABSORPTION; ACCELERATION; DISPERSION; EXPERIMENTAL STUDY; FREQUENCY ANALYSIS; LIGHT EFFECT; NONLINEARITY; OPTICAL METHOD; PLASMA; SILICON;

ACCELERATION; ARTICLE; COMPRESSION; ENERGY; EXPERIMENTAL STUDY; LIGHT ABSORPTION; PHYSICAL PHENOMENA; SILICON PHOTONIC CRYSTAL; SOLITON;

EID: 84892726840     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20411723     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/ncomms4160     Document Type: Article

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