Ultrasmall thermally tunable microring resonator with a submicrometer heater on Si nanowires

Journal of Lightwave Technology

Volumn 26, Issue 6, 2008, Pages 704-709

  Dai, Daoxin ^a,b   Yang, Liu ^a,b   He, Sailing ^a,b  

^a ZHEJIANG UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b JORCEP   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Filter; Microring; Nanowire; Resonator; Si; Thermal; Tunable

Indexed keywords

CLADDING (COATING); COMPUTER SIMULATION; HEAT CONDUCTION; LIGHT ABSORPTION; OPTICAL WAVEGUIDES; OPTIMIZATION; SILICA;

THERMALLY TUNABLE MICRORING RESONATOR; TUNABLE THERMOOPTICAL (TO);

NANOWIRES;

EID: 42649100999     PISSN: 07338724     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/JLT.2007.915274     Document Type: Article

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