Numerical simulation of a silicon-on-insulator waveguide fabry-perot interferometer for intensity light modulators at 1.3 μm

Journal of Lightwave Technology

Volumn 15, Issue 11, 1997, Pages 2124-2129

  Vonsovici, Adrian ^a,b,c   Orobtchouk, Regis ^a,c,d,e   Koster, Alain ^a,c,e,f  

^a CNRS   (France)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BUCHAREST   (Romania)

^c UNIVERSITÉ PARIS SACLAY   (France)

^d UNIV MONTPELLIER   (France)

^e UNIV PARIS SUD   (France)

^f IEF   (France)

Author keywords

Charge injection devices; Electrooptic modulation; Intensity modulation; Optical strip waveguide components; Silicon on insulator technology; Spatial light modulators; Waveguide discontinuities

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; CURRENT DENSITY; DIFFRACTION GRATINGS; ELECTROOPTICAL EFFECTS; INTEGRATED OPTICS; LIGHT MODULATORS; OPTICAL WAVEGUIDES; SILICON ON INSULATOR TECHNOLOGY;

CHARGE INJECTION DEVICES; FABRY PEROT REFLECTIVITY; INTENSITY LIGHT MODULATORS;

FABRY-PEROT INTERFEROMETERS;

EID: 0031275364     PISSN: 07338724     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/50.641532     Document Type: Article

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