Design and modeling of waveguide-coupled single-mode microring resonators

Journal of Lightwave Technology

Volumn 16, Issue 8, 1998, Pages 1433-1446

  Chin, M K ^{a,b,c,d,e,f,g}   Ho, S T ^a,b,c,h,i  

^a IEEE   (United States)

^b Northwestern University   (United States)

^c MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^e NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^f NANYANG TECHNOLOGICAL UNIVERSITY   (Singapore)

^g U States Integrated Optics Inc   (United States)

^h LUCENT TECHNOLOGIES   (United States)

ⁱ Sigma Pi Sigma ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

Conformal transforms; Microresonators; Nanofabrication; Nanophotonics

Indexed keywords

APPROXIMATION THEORY; LIGHT PROPAGATION; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MATHEMATICAL TRANSFORMATIONS; NANOTECHNOLOGY; OPTICAL WAVEGUIDES; REFRACTIVE INDEX; RESONANCE; SUBSTRATES;

FREE SPECTRAL RANGE; MICRORING RESONATORS; NANOPHOTONICS;

OPTICAL RESONATORS;

EID: 0032140189     PISSN: 07338724     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/50.704609     Document Type: Article

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