All-optical nano modulator on a silicon chip

Optics Express

Volumn 15, Issue 14, 2007, Pages 9029-9039

  Limon, Ofer ^a   Rudnitsky, Arkady ^a   Zalevsky, Zeev ^a   Nathan, Menachem ^b   Businaro, Luca ^c   Cojoc, Dan ^c   Gerardino, Annamaria ^d  

^a BAR ILAN UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

^b TEL AVIV UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

^c INFM   (Italy)

^d CNR   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

LIGHT ABSORPTION; LIGHT MODULATORS; MACH-ZEHNDER INTERFEROMETERS; MICROCRYSTALLINE SILICON; OPTICAL FIBER FABRICATION;

NANO MODULATORS; OPTICAL RESPONSE; SILICON CHIPS; TRANSMISSION LINKSS;

MICROPROCESSOR CHIPS;

EID: 34547197877     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.15.009029     Document Type: Article

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