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Silicon nanophotonics

Good vibrations for light

Nature Photonics volume 9, pages 144–146 (2015)Cite this article

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Large light–sound interaction in nanoscale silicon wires is experimentally demonstrated, making integrated nonlinear optical devices a reality.

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Figure 1: Illustrations of nanoscale waveguides designed for photon–phonon interaction.

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  1. Luc Thévenaz is at École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne, Group for Fibre Optics SCI-STI-LT, Station 11, CH-1015 Lausanne, Switzerland,

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Thévenaz, L. Good vibrations for light. Nature Photon 9, 144–146 (2015). https://doi.org/10.1038/nphoton.2015.28

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