Thermooptically tuned photonic crystal waveguide silicon-on-insulator Mach-Zehnder interferometers

IEEE Photonics Technology Letters

Volumn 19, Issue 5, 2007, Pages 342-344

  Gu, Lanlan ^a   Jiang, Wei ^b   Chen, Xiaonan ^a   Chen, Ray T ^a  

^a The University of Texas at Austin   (United States)

^b Omega Optics Inc   (United States)

Author keywords

Mach Zehnder interferometer (MZI); Photonic crystal waveguide (PCW); Silicon modulator; Thermooptic (TO)

Indexed keywords

OPTICAL WAVEGUIDES; PHOTONIC CRYSTALS; SILICON ON INSULATOR TECHNOLOGY; SWITCHING; THERMAL EFFECTS;

PHOTONIC CRYSTAL WAVEGUIDE; SILICON MODULATOR; THERMOOPTIC;

MACH-ZEHNDER INTERFEROMETERS;

EID: 33947614763     PISSN: 10411135     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/LPT.2007.891245     Document Type: Article

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