Silicon photonic wire circuits for on-chip optical interconnects

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 6883, Issue , 2008, Pages

  Green, William M J ^a   Xia, Fengnian ^a   Assefa, Solomon ^a   Rooks, Michael J ^a   Sekaric, Lidija ^a   Vlasov, Yurii A ^a  

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

Author keywords

Nanophotonics; On chip optical interconnects; Photonics fabrication; Silicon photonics; Silicon on insulator

Indexed keywords

CMOS INTEGRATED CIRCUITS; INTEGRATED CIRCUITS; OPTICAL DESIGN; OPTICAL FIBER FABRICATION; PHOTONICS; SILICON ON INSULATOR TECHNOLOGY;

NANOPHOTONICS; ON-CHIP OPTICAL INTERCONNECTS; PHOTONICS FABRICATION; SILICON PHOTONICS;

OPTICAL INTERCONNECTS;

EID: 41149124884     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.767340     Document Type: Conference Paper

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