High bandwidth SOI photonic wire ring resonators using MMI couplers

Optics Express

Volumn 15, Issue 6, 2007, Pages 3149-3155

  Xu, Dan Xia ^a   Densmore, Adam ^a   Waldron, Philip ^a   Lapointe, Jean ^a   Post, Edith ^a   Delâge, André ^a   Janz, Siegfried ^a   Cheben, Pavel ^a   Schmid, Jens H ^a   Lamontagne, Boris ^a  

^a NATIONAL RESEARCH COUNCIL CANADA   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DIRECTIONAL COUPLERS; FREQUENCY BANDS; LIGHT EXTINCTION; OPTICAL RESONATORS; PHOTONIC DEVICES; SIGNAL PROCESSING; SILICON ON INSULATOR TECHNOLOGY;

EXTINCTION RATIO; MMI COUPLERS; PHOTONIC WIRE RING RESONATORS;

WAVEGUIDES;

EID: 33947363300     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.15.003149     Document Type: Article

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