Lossless 1×2 optical switch monolithically integrated on a passive active resonant coupler (PARC) platform

IEEE Photonics Technology Letters

Volumn 12, Issue 7, 2000, Pages 840-842

  Saini, S S ^a   Hu, Y ^a   Johnson, F G ^b   Stone, D R ^b   Shen, H ^c   Zhou, W ^c   Pamulapati, J ^c   Ott, M N ^d   Shaw, H C ^d   Dagenais, M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND   (United States)

^b LABORATORY FOR PHYSICAL SCIENCES   (United States)

^c U S ARMY RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

^d NASA GODDARD SPACE FLIGHT CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

LASER MODES; MOLECULAR BEAM EPITAXY; MONOLITHIC INTEGRATED CIRCUITS; OPTICAL BEAM SPLITTERS; SEMICONDUCTOR JUNCTIONS; SEMICONDUCTOR LASERS; WAVEGUIDES;

LOSSLESS SPLITTERS; PASSIVE ACTIVE RESONANT COUPLER; PHOTONIC INTEGRATED CIRCUITS; SEMICONDUCTOR OPTICAL AMPLIFIERS; TWIN WAVEGUIDES;

OPTICAL SWITCHES;

EID: 0034224112     PISSN: 10411135     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/68.853518     Document Type: Article

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