Dispersion Engineered Silicon Nanocrystal Slot Waveguides for Soliton Ultrafast Optical Processing

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Figure 7: Dispersion Engineered Silicon Nanocrystal Slot Waveguides for Soliton Ultrafast Optical Processing 