Ultra-low loss photonic integrated circuit with membrane-type photonic crystal waveguides

Optics Express

Volumn 11, Issue 22, 2003, Pages 2927-2939

  McNab, Sharee J ^a   Moll, Nikolaj ^b   Vlasov, Yurii A ^a  

^a IBM T J WATSON RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

^b IBM RESEARCH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CMOS INTEGRATED CIRCUITS; CRYSTALLINE MATERIALS; LIGHT PROPAGATION; LIGHT TRANSMISSION; PHOTONS; SILICON ON INSULATOR TECHNOLOGY; SINGLE MODE FIBERS; SPURIOUS SIGNAL NOISE;

FABRY-PEROT NOISE; PHOTONIC CRYSTAL WAVEGUIDES; PHOTONIC INTEGRATED CIRCUITS; PLANAR WAVEGUIDES;

WAVEGUIDES;

EID: 2442552535     PISSN: 10944087     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.11.002927     Document Type: Article

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