Characteristics of rib waveguide racetrack resonators in SOI

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 6183, Issue , 2006, Pages

  Reed, G T ^a   Headley, W R ^a   Gardes, F Y ^a   Timotijevic, B D ^a   Chan, S P ^a   Mashanovich, G Z ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SURREY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Integrated optics; Optical waveguides; Phase modulator; Photonic circuits; Ring resonator; Silicon photonics; Silicon on insulator; Thermo optic effect

Indexed keywords

INTEGRATED OPTICS; OPTICAL FILTERS; OPTICAL RESONATORS; OPTICAL WAVEGUIDES; ULSI CIRCUITS;

PHASE MODULATORS; PHOTONIC CIRCUITS; RING RESONATORS; SILICON PHOTONICS; THERMOOPTIC EFFECT;

SILICON ON INSULATOR TECHNOLOGY;

EID: 33746747169     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.666758     Document Type: Conference Paper

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