Giant Raman gain in silicon nanocrystals

Nanostructured silicon has generated a lot of interest in the past decades as a key material for silicon-based photonics. The low absorption coefficient makes silicon nanocrystals attractive as an active medium in waveguide structures, and their third-order nonlinear optical properties are crucial f...

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Main Authors: Sirleto, Luigi, Antonietta Ferrara, Maria, Nikitin, Timur, Novikov, Sergei, Khriachtchev, Leonid
Format: Online
Language:English
Published: Nature Pub. Group 2012
Online Access:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3514488/