Hybrid silicon slotted photonic crystal waveguides: how does third order nonlinear performance scale with slow light

Junfei Xia; Samuel Serna; Weiwei Zhang; Laurent Vivien; éric Cassan

doi:10.1364/PRJ.4.000257

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