III-Nitride-based planar lightwave circuits for long wavelength optical communications

IEEE Journal of Quantum Electronics

Volumn 41, Issue 1, 2005, Pages 100-110

  Hui, Rongqing ^a   Wan, Yueting ^a   Li, Jing ^b   Jin, Sixuan ^b   Lin, Jingyu ^b   Jiang, Hongxing ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS   (United States)

^b KANSAS STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Integrated optics; Optical communication; Planar waveguides; Semiconductor devices; Semiconductor materials; Semiconductor waveguides; Wavelength division multiplexing

Indexed keywords

BIREFRINGENCE; GALLIUM NITRIDE; OPTICAL COMMUNICATION; OPTICAL PROPERTIES; OPTICAL WAVEGUIDES; REFRACTIVE INDEX; SEMICONDUCTING GALLIUM COMPOUNDS; SEMICONDUCTOR MATERIALS; WAVELENGTH DIVISION MULTIPLEXING;

PLANAR WAVEGUIDES; SEMICONDUCTOR WAVEGUIDES;

INTEGRATED OPTICS;

EID: 12844279962     PISSN: 00189197     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/JQE.2004.838169     Document Type: Article

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