• DocumentCode
    689672
  • Title

    Dispersion of nonlinearity and modulation instability in subwavelength semiconductor waveguides

  • Author

    Gorbach, A.V. ; Zhao, Xingang ; Skryabin, D.V.

  • Author_Institution
    Centre for Photonics & Photonic Mater., Univ. of Bath, Bath, UK
  • fYear
    2013
  • fDate
    9-14 June 2013
  • Firstpage
    1
  • Lastpage
    2
  • Abstract
    We demonstrate that strong dispersion of nonlinearity in subwavelength waveguides can lead to the modulational instability in the regime of normal group velocity dispersion through the mechanism independent from higher order dispersions of linear waves.
  • Keywords
    nonlinear optics; optical dispersion; optical modulation; optical waveguide theory; higher order dispersion; linear waves; modulational instability; nonlinearity dispersion; normal group velocity dispersion; subwavelength semiconductor waveguides; Dispersion; Frequency modulation; Mathematical model; Nonlinear optics; Optical waveguides; Semiconductor waveguides;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • Conference_Titel
    Lasers and Electro-Optics (CLEO), 2013 Conference on
  • Conference_Location
    San Jose, CA
  • Type

    conf

  • Filename
    6834059