High confinement suspended micro-ring resonators in silicon-on-insulator

Optics Express

Volumn 14, Issue 13, 2006, Pages 445-449

  Martinez, Linnell ^a   Lipson, Michal ^a  

^a School of Operations Research and Industrial Engineering   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

INSERTION LOSSES; SILICON ON INSULATOR TECHNOLOGY; SUSPENSION BRIDGES;

MICRO-RING RESONATORS; QUALITY FACTORS;

OPTICAL RESONATORS;

EID: 33745475889     PISSN: 10944087     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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