Active control of slow light on a chip with photonic crystal waveguides

Nature

Volumn 438, Issue 7064, 2005, Pages 65-69

  Vlasov, Yurii A ^a   O'Boyle, Martin ^a   Hamann, Hendrik F ^a   McNab, Sharee J ^a  

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

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CRYSTALS; LIGHT ABSORPTION; MICROPROCESSOR CHIPS; NATURAL FREQUENCIES; OPTICAL SWITCHES; OPTICAL WAVEGUIDES; PHOTONS; QUANTUM OPTICS; SILICON;

ACTIVE CONTROL; PHOTONIC CRYSTAL WAVEGUIDES; SOLID STATE SYSTEMS;

INTEGRATED CIRCUITS;

SILICON;

PHYSICS;

ARTICLE; CRYSTAL; ELECTRICITY; HEATING; LIGHT; OPTICS; PHOTON; PRIORITY JOURNAL; VELOCITY;

EID: 27744523787     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: 14764687     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nature04210     Document Type: Article

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