Electro-optically tunable microring resonators in lithium niobate

Nature Photonics

Volumn 1, Issue 7, 2007, Pages 407-410

  Guarino, Andrea ^a   Poberaj, Gorazd ^a   Rezzonico, Daniele ^a   Degl'Innocenti, Riccardo ^a   Günter, Peter ^a  

^a ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ELECTROOPTICAL PROPERTIES; INTEGRATED OPTICAL DEVICES; NONLINEAR OPTICAL APPLICATIONS; OPTICAL MICRORESONATORS; OPTICAL MICRORING RESONATOR; OPTICAL TELECOMMUNICATION SYSTEM; QUANTUM ELECTRODYNAMICS; TRANSMISSION SPECTRUMS;

QUANTUM ELECTRONICS;

OPTICAL RESONATORS;

EID: 34547262846     PISSN: 17494885     EISSN: 17494893     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nphoton.2007.93     Document Type: Article

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