Photonic crystal waveguide modulators for silicon photonics: Device physics and some recent progress

Solid-State Electronics

Volumn 51, Issue 10 SPEC. ISS, 2007, Pages 1278-1286

  Jiang, Wei ^a   Gu, Lanlan ^b   Chen, Xiaonan ^b   Chen, Ray T ^b  

^a Omega Optics   (United States)

^b The University of Texas at Austin   (United States)

Author keywords

Modulator; Photonic crystal; Silicon photonics

Indexed keywords

CURRENT DENSITY; MACH-ZEHNDER INTERFEROMETERS; OPTOELECTRONIC DEVICES; PHOTONIC CRYSTALS;

OPTOELECTRONIC MERITS; PHOTONIC CRYSTAL WAVEGUIDE; SILICON PHOTONICS;

OPTICAL WAVEGUIDES;

EID: 35148812599     PISSN: 00381101     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.sse.2007.08.005     Document Type: Article

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