Negligible nonlinear absorption in hydrogenated amorphous silicon at 1.55μm for ultra-fast nonlinear signal processing

Optics Express

Volumn 22, Issue 8, 2014, Pages 9948-9958

  Gai, Xin ^a   Choi, Duk Yong ^a   Luther Davies, Barry ^a  

^a AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMORPHOUS SILICON; HYDROGENATION; PHASE CHANGE MATERIALS; SIGNAL PROCESSING;

ALL-OPTICAL PROCESSING; ALL-OPTICAL SIGNAL PROCESSING; FIGURE OF MERIT (FOM); INTENSITY-DEPENDENT; NON-LINEAR SIGNAL PROCESSING; NONLINEAR ABSORPTIONS; NONLINEAR MATERIALS; THREE-PHOTON ABSORPTION (3PA);

SILICON;

EID: 84898957993     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.22.009948     Document Type: Article

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