Modeling and measurement of losses in silicon-on-insulator resonators and bends

Optics Express

Volumn 15, Issue 17, 2007, Pages 10553-10561

  Xiao, Shijun ^a   Khan, Maroof H ^a   Shen, Hao ^a   Qi, Minghao ^a  

^a Purdue University   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BANDWIDTH; OPTICAL RESONATORS; OPTICAL WAVEGUIDES; SILICON ON INSULATOR TECHNOLOGY;

ADD-DROP CONFIGURATION; DROP-PORT BANDWIDTH;

OPTICAL LOSSES;

EID: 34548106032     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.15.010553     Document Type: Article

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