Interaction between light and highly confined hypersound in a silicon photonic nanowire

Nature Photonics

Volumn 9, Issue 3, 2015, Pages 199-203

  Van Laer, Raphaël ^a   Kuyken, Bart ^a   Van Thourhout, Dries ^a   Baets, Roel ^a  

^a GHENT UNIVERSITY   (Belgium)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BRILLOUIN SCATTERING; INFRARED DEVICES; OSCILLISTORS; PHONONS; PHOTONIC DEVICES; QUANTUM THEORY; WIRE;

CAVITY OPTOMECHANICS; COMB GENERATORS; MECHANICAL OSCILLATORS; NEAR INFRARED LIGHT; OPTICAL CAVITIES; PHOTONIC NANOWIRES; SILICON PHOTONIC WIRES; SOUND INTERACTIONS;

SILICON PHOTONICS;

EID: 84924034156     PISSN: 17494885     EISSN: 17494893     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nphoton.2015.11     Document Type: Article

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