Ultra-compact high order ring resonator filters using submicron silicon photonic wires for on-chip optical interconnects

Optics Express

Volumn 15, Issue 19, 2007, Pages 11934-11941

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

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

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

INSERTION LOSSES; MICROPROCESSOR CHIPS; OPTICAL INTERCONNECTS; PHOTONIC DEVICES; RESONATORS; SILICON;

RING RESONATOR FILTERS; SILICON PHOTONIC WIRES;

OPTICAL FILTERS;

EID: 34648831811     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.15.011934     Document Type: Article

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