Investigation of resonantly enhanced modulators on LiNbO3 using FEM and numerical optimization technique

Journal of Lightwave Technology

Volumn 22, Issue 2, 2004, Pages 526-533

  Nguyen, Thach Giang ^a   Mitchell, Arnan ^a   Visagathilagar, Yuvaraja S ^a  

^a RMIT UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Adaptive simulated annealing LiNbO3; Link gain; Narrow bandwidth; Optical modulator; Optimization; Resonant enhancement

Indexed keywords

BANDWIDTH; COMPUTER SIMULATION; ELECTRODES; ENERGY GAP; FINITE ELEMENT METHOD; GAIN MEASUREMENT; LITHIUM NIOBATE; OPTICAL DESIGN; OPTICAL SYSTEMS; OPTIMIZATION; RESONANCE;

ADAPTIVE SIMULATED ANNEALING; ELECTRODE GAP; LINK GAIN; NARROW BANDWIDTH; RESONANT ENHANCEMENT; RESONANTLY ENHANCED MODULATORS; RETURN LOSS;

LIGHT MODULATORS;

EID: 1942518273     PISSN: 07338724     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/JLT.2003.821746     Document Type: Article

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