Nonlinear effects in ultrasmall Silicon-On-Insulator ring resonators

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 6183, Issue , 2006, Pages

  Priem, Gino ^a   Dumon, Pieter ^a   Bogaerts, Wim ^a   Van Thourhout, Dries ^a   Morthier, Geert ^a   Baets, Roel ^a  

^a GHENT UNIVERSITY   (Belgium)

Author keywords

Free carrier dispersion; Optical bistability; Optical instability; Photonic wires; Ring resonators; Silicon on Insulator; Two photon absorption

Indexed keywords

ERROR ANALYSIS; NONLINEAR OPTICS; OPTICAL BISTABILITY; OPTICAL SWITCHES; SILICON ON INSULATOR TECHNOLOGY;

FREE-CARRIER DISPERSION; OPTICAL INSTABILITY; PHOTONIC WIRES; RING RESONATORS; TWO-PHOTON ABSORPTION;

OPTICAL RESONATORS;

EID: 33746765130     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.668249     Document Type: Conference Paper

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