• DocumentCode
    1680356
  • Title

    Third-order optical nonlinearity in Bulk nanoporous silicon at telecom wavelengths

  • Author

    Suess, Ryan J. ; Murphy, Thomas E.

  • Author_Institution
    Dept. of Electr. & Comput. Eng., Univ. of Maryland, College Park, MD, USA
  • fYear
    2012
  • Firstpage
    1
  • Lastpage
    2
  • Abstract
    Nonlinear absorption and refraction coefficients of nanoporous silicon are reported and found to be enhanced compared to those of crystalline silicon. A pump-probe measurement showing the temporal character of the nonlinearity is also presented.
  • Keywords
    elemental semiconductors; nanoporous materials; nonlinear optics; optical pumping; refraction; silicon; Si; bulk nanoporous silicon; nonlinear absorption; pump-probe measurement; refraction coefficients; telecom wavelengths; third-order optical nonlinearity; Absorption; Nonlinear optics; Optical pumping; Optical refraction; Silicon; Wavelength measurement;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • Conference_Titel
    Lasers and Electro-Optics (CLEO), 2012 Conference on
  • Conference_Location
    San Jose, CA
  • Print_ISBN
    978-1-4673-1839-6
  • Type

    conf

  • Filename
    6326668