Mirror cavity MMI coupled photonic wire resonator in SOI

Optics Express

Volumn 15, Issue 21, 2007, Pages 13907-13912

  Bock, Przemek J ^a,b   Cheben, Pavel ^b   Xu, Dan Xia ^b   Janz, Siegfried ^b   Hall, Trevor J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OTTAWA   (Canada)

^b NATIONAL RESEARCH COUNCIL CANADA   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

PHOTONIC DEVICES; RESONATORS; SIGNAL INTERFERENCE; TIME DOMAIN ANALYSIS; WAVEGUIDES; WAVELENGTH;

BEND WAVEGUIDES; MIRROR CAVITY; MULTIMODE INTERFERENCE (MMI); PHOTONIC WIRE RESONATOR;

SILICON COMPOUNDS;

EID: 35349026242     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.15.013907     Document Type: Article

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