Mid-infrared generation by frequency down-conversion across 1.2 octaves in a normally-dispersive silicon wire

2013 Conference on Lasers and Electro-Optics, CLEO 2013

Volumn , Issue , 2013, Pages

  Kuyken, Bart ^a   Verheyen, Peter ^b   Tannouri, Pamela ^c   Van Campenhout, Joris ^b   Baets, Roel ^a   Roelkens, Gunther ^a   Green, William M J ^c  

^a GHENT UNIVERSITY   (Belgium)

^b IMEC   (Belgium)

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

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FOUR WAVE MIXING; INFRARED DEVICES; SILICON;

DOWN CONVERSION; MIDINFRARED; MIDINFRARED GENERATION; NANOPHOTONIC WAVEGUIDES; SILICON WIRES; TELECOM BANDS;

DISPERSION (WAVES);

EID: 84903764536     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1364/cleo_si.2013.cth1f.2     Document Type: Conference Paper

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