Silicon microring carrier-injection-based modulators/switches with tunable extinction ratios and OR-logic switching by using waveguide cross-coupling

Optics Express

Volumn 15, Issue 8, 2007, Pages 5069-5076

  Li, Chao ^a   Zhou, Linjie ^a   Poon, Andrew W ^a  

^a HONG KONG UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Hong Kong)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

OPTICAL SWITCHES; OPTICAL WAVEGUIDES; PHOTODIODES; SILICON; SWITCHING; TUNING;

MICRORING; MODULATOR EXTINCTION RATIO; OPTICAL WAVEFORM DISTORTIONS; WAVEGUIDE DIODES;

LIGHT MODULATORS;

EID: 34247269181     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.15.005069     Document Type: Article

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