Cascaded silicon micro-ring modulators for WDM optical interconnection

Optics Express

Volumn 14, Issue 20, 2006, Pages 9430-9435

  Xu, Qianfan ^a   Schmidt, Brad ^a   Shakya, Jagat ^a   Lipson, Michal ^a  

^a Cornell University   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MODULATORS; OPTICAL COMMUNICATION; SILICON; WAVELENGTH DIVISION MULTIPLEXING;

CASCADED SILICON MICRO-RING MODULATORS; OPTICAL INTER-CHANNEL CROSSTALK;

CASCADE CONNECTIONS;

EID: 33749388485     PISSN: 10944087     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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