Ultracompact optical buffers on a silicon chip

Nature Photonics

Volumn 1, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 65-71

  Xia, Fengnian ^a   Sekaric, Lidija ^a   Vlasov, Yurii ^a  

^a IBM T J WATSON RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALL-PASS FILTERS (APF); DIFFRACTION LIMITS; ERROR FREE OPERATIONS; MICRORING RESONATOR; OPERATIONAL BANDWIDTH; OPTICAL DELAY LINES; PHOTONIC WIRE WAVEGUIDES; SILICON-ON-INSULATORS;

DIFFRACTION; GROUP DELAY; OPTICAL WAVEGUIDES; WAVEGUIDES; WAVES;

WAVEGUIDE FILTERS;

EID: 34247354449     PISSN: 17494885     EISSN: 17494893     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nphoton.2006.42     Document Type: Article

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