Silicon-chip mid-infrared frequency comb generation

Nature Communications

Volumn 6, Issue , 2015, Pages

  Griffith, Austin G ^a   Lau, Ryan K W ^a   Cardenas, Jaime ^a   Okawachi, Yoshitomo ^a   Mohanty, Aseema ^a   Fain, Romy ^a   Lee, Yoon Ho Daniel ^a   Yu, Mengjie ^a   Phare, Christopher T ^a   Poitras, Carl B ^a   Gaeta, Alexander L ^a   Lipson, Michal ^a  

^a School of Chemical and Molecular Engineering   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

METAL OXIDE; SILICON;

GAS; INFRARED RADIATION; MONITORING; SEMICONDUCTOR INDUSTRY; SILICON; SPECTRAL ANALYSIS;

ARTICLE; ATMOSPHERE; DIODE LASER; FREQUENCY MODULATION; GAS; INFRARED SPECTROSCOPY; LABORATORY; MICROCHIP ANALYSIS; MICROTECHNOLOGY; MONITORING; ON CHIP MICRORESONATOR; OSCILLATION; SEMICONDUCTOR; SPECTROMETER;

EID: 84923914367     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20411723     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/ncomms7299     Document Type: Article

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