Compact Optical Antenna Coupler for Silicon Photonics Characterized by Third-Harmonic Generation

ACS Photonics

Volumn 1, Issue 10, 2014, Pages 912-916

  Sidiropoulos, Themistoklis P H ^a   Nielsen, Michael P ^a   Roschuk, Tyler R ^a   Zayats, Anatoly V ^b   Maier, Stefan A ^a   Oulton, Rupert F ^a  

^a IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b KING'S COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

nano optics; nonlinear optics; plasmonics; silicon photonics; third harmonic generation

Indexed keywords

ANTENNAS; HARMONIC ANALYSIS; NONLINEAR OPTICS; OPTICAL INSTRUMENTS; PHOTONIC DEVICES; PHOTONICS; SILICON; WAVEGUIDES;

CHEMICAL EQUATIONS; COUPLING EFFICIENCY; FREE-SPACE BEAMS; NANO OPTICS; PLASMONICS; SILICON PHOTONICS; SILICON WAVEGUIDE; STRONG INTERACTION;

HARMONIC GENERATION;

EID: 84926036316     PISSN: None     EISSN: 23304022     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/ph5002796     Document Type: Article

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