Passive ring-assisted Mach-Zehnder interleaver on silicon-on-insulator

Optics Express

Volumn 16, Issue 12, 2008, Pages 8359-8365

  Song, Junfeng ^a,b   Fang, Q ^a   Tao, S H ^a   Yu, M B ^a   Lo, G Q ^a   Kwong, D L ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF MICROELECTRONICS   (Singapore)

^b JILIN UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

SILICON;

A-RINGS; FLAT-TOP SPECTRAL RESPONSE; FREE SPECTRAL RANGE; INTERLEAVERS; MACH-ZEHNDER; OPTICAL INTERLEAVERS; SILICON WIRES;

SILICON ON INSULATOR TECHNOLOGY;

SILICON;

ARTICLE; CHEMISTRY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; ELECTRIC CONDUCTIVITY; ELECTRONICS; EQUIPMENT; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; INSTRUMENTATION; INTERFEROMETRY; OPTICS; RADIATION SCATTERING; REFRACTOMETRY; THEORETICAL MODEL;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; ELECTRIC CONDUCTIVITY; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; EQUIPMENT FAILURE ANALYSIS; INTERFEROMETRY; MINIATURIZATION; MODELS, THEORETICAL; OPTICS; REFRACTOMETRY; SCATTERING, RADIATION; SILICON;

EID: 45249118584     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.16.008359     Document Type: Article

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