Active building blocks for silicon photonic devices

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 6017, Issue , 2005, Pages

  Weiss, Sharon M ^a,c   Fauchet, Philippe M ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ROCHESTER   (United States)

^b University of Rochester   (United States)

^c VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Liquid crystal; Microcavity; Optical interconnect; Photonic crystal; Porous silicon; Tunable

Indexed keywords

MICROCAVITY; PHOTONIC CRYSTALS; SILICON PHOTONIC DEVICES; TUNABLE;

BANDWIDTH; LIQUID CRYSTALS; OPTICAL INTERCONNECTS; PHOTONS; POROUS SILICON;

OPTICAL DEVICES;

EID: 33644813735     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.632489     Document Type: Conference Paper

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