System performance of slow-light buffering and storage in silicon nano-waveguide

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 6783, Issue , 2007, Pages

  Su, Yikai ^a   Liu, Fangfei ^a   Li, Qiang ^a   Zhang, Ziyang ^b   Qiu, Min ^b  

^a SHANGHAI JIAO TONG UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b ROYAL INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Silicon microring resonator; Slow light; Thermo optic effect

Indexed keywords

LASER TUNING; NANOSTRUCTURED MATERIALS; OPTICAL PUMPING; OPTICAL RESONATORS; SILICON;

PSEUDO RANDOM BIT SEQUENCE (PRBS); SILICON MICRORING RESONATORS; THERMOOPTIC EFFECT;

OPTICAL WAVEGUIDES;

EID: 42549133613     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.743020     Document Type: Conference Paper

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