Characterization of a 4 × 4 Gb/s parallel electronic bus to WDM optical link silicon photonic translator

IEEE Photonics Technology Letters

Volumn 19, Issue 7, 2007, Pages 456-458

  Lee, Benjamin G ^a   Small, Benjamin A ^a   Xu, Qianfan ^b   Lipson, Michal ^b   Bergman, Keren ^a  

^a Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences   (United States)

^b School of Operations Research and Industrial Engineering   (United States)

Author keywords

Microresonators; Modulation; Silicon on insulator (SOI) technology

Indexed keywords

CROSSTALK; EXTRAPOLATION; HARMONIC DISTORTION; INTEGRATED CIRCUITS; OPTICAL INTERCONNECTS; OPTICAL LINKS; OPTICAL WAVEGUIDES;

MICRORING MODULATOR CASCADE; MULTIPLE-WAVELENGTH OPTICAL SIGNAL;

SILICON ON INSULATOR TECHNOLOGY;

EID: 34047213094     PISSN: 10411135     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/LPT.2007.893032     Document Type: Article

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