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Silicon gets the green light

Nature Photonics volume 3, pages 190–192 (2009)Cite this article

Third-harmonic generation enhanced by slow-light pulses in a photonic crystal waveguide offers a way to generate green light emission from silicon.

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  1. Toshihiko Baba is at the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Yokohama National University, Yokohama 240-8501, Japan. baba@ynu.ac.jp,

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