Electro-optical switching using coupled photonic crystal waveguides

Optics Express

Volumn 10, Issue 20, 2002, Pages 1048-1059

  Sharkawy, Ahmed ^a   Shi, Shouyuan ^a   Prather, Dennis W ^a   Soref, Richard A ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF DELAWARE   (United States)

^b AIR FORCE RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CROSSTALK; INTEGRATED OPTICS; LIGHT MODULATORS; MULTIPLEXING; OPTICAL DESIGN; OPTICAL INTERCONNECTS; OPTICAL SWITCHES; OPTICAL WAVEGUIDES; SEMICONDUCTOR MATERIALS; WAVEGUIDE COUPLERS;

APPLICATION SPECIFIC OPTICAL INTEGRATED CIRCUIT (ASPIC); COUPLED CAVITY; MULTIPLEXERS; PHOTONIC CRYSTALS (PC);

ELECTROOPTICAL EFFECTS;

EID: 0037916794     PISSN: 10944087     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.10.001048     Document Type: Article

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