High-speed silicon electrooptic modulator design

IEEE Photonics Technology Letters

Volumn 17, Issue 5, 2005, Pages 1007-1009

  Gan, Fuwan ^a   Kärtner, Franz X ^a  

^a Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science   (United States)

Author keywords

Electronic carrier injection; High index contrast silicon (Si) waveguide; High speed optical modulator

Indexed keywords

BANDWIDTH; COMPUTER SIMULATION; CURRENT VOLTAGE CHARACTERISTICS; ELECTROOPTICAL DEVICES; HEAT SINKS; INSERTION LOSSES; LIGHT MODULATION; LIGHT POLARIZATION; OPTICAL DESIGN; OPTICAL WAVEGUIDES; REFRACTIVE INDEX; SILICON;

ELECTRONIC CARRIER INJECTION; ELECTROOPTIC MODULATOR; HIGH INDEX CONTRAST SILICON WAVEGUIDE; HIGH SPEED OPTICAL MODULATOR; RIDGE WAVEGUIDE;

LIGHT MODULATORS;

EID: 18944376746     PISSN: 10411135     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/LPT.2005.846756     Document Type: Article

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