CMOS compatible high-speed electro-optical modulator

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 5926, Issue , 2005, Pages 1-10

  Kekatpure, Rohan D ^a   Brongersma, Mark L ^a  

^a STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Electrooptic switching; Microring Resonator; Modulator; Optical Interconnects; Polysilicon Waveguides; Silicon microphotonics

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; ELECTROOPTICAL DEVICES; FINITE ELEMENT METHOD; LIGHT MODULATORS; OPTICAL INTERCONNECTS; REFLECTION; SILICON; SWITCHING; WAVEGUIDES;

MICRORING RESONATOR; POLYSILICON WAVEGUIDES; SILICON MICROPHOTONICS;

CMOS INTEGRATED CIRCUITS;

EID: 31844433482     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.616084     Document Type: Conference Paper

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