Photonics Research, Volume. 6, Issue 8, 805(2018)
Intermodal four-wave mixing in silicon waveguides
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Stefano Signorini, Mattia Mancinelli, Massimo Borghi, Martino Bernard, Mher Ghulinyan, Georg Pucker, Lorenzo Pavesi. Intermodal four-wave mixing in silicon waveguides[J]. Photonics Research, 2018, 6(8): 805
Category: Nonlinear Optics
Received: Feb. 6, 2018
Accepted: May. 10, 2018
Published Online: Aug. 1, 2018
The Author Email: Stefano Signorini (stefano.signorini-1@unitn.it)