Optical networks on a chip using photonic bandgap materials

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 4436, Issue , 2001, Pages 179-189

  Sharkawy, Ahmed ^a   Shi, Shouyuan ^a   Prather, Dennis W ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF DELAWARE   (United States)

Author keywords

High density optical interconnects; Optical computing; Optical data processing; Optical interconnects; Optical networks; Waveguides (planar, channeled, slab)

Indexed keywords

CIRCUIT THEORY; ELECTRONS; MICROPROCESSOR CHIPS; OPTICAL DATA PROCESSING; OPTICAL WAVEGUIDES; PRINTED CIRCUIT BOARDS;

OPTICAL NETWORKS; PHOTONIC CRYSTALS (PHCS');

OPTICAL INTERCONNECTS;

EID: 0035759536     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.451298     Document Type: Conference Paper

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