All-optical compact silicon comb switch

Optics Express

Volumn 15, Issue 15, 2007, Pages 9600-9605

  Po, Dong ^a   Preble, Stefan F ^a   Lipson, Michal ^a  

^a School of Chemical and Molecular Engineering   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BANDWIDTH; OPTICAL RESONATORS; SILICON; WAVELENGTH DIVISION MULTIPLEXING;

OPTICAL COMB SWITCH; RING RESONATORS; WAVELENGTH CHANNELS;

OPTICAL SWITCHES;

EID: 34547462712     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.15.009600     Document Type: Article

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