Waveguide-integrated, ultralow-energy GeSi electro-absorption modulators

Nature Photonics

Volumn 2, Issue 7, 2008, Pages 433-437

  Liu, Jifeng ^a   Beals, Mark ^a   Pomerene, Andrew ^b   Bernardis, Sarah ^a   Sun, Rong ^a   Cheng, Jing ^a   Kimerling, Lionel C ^a   Michel, Jurgen ^a  

^a MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^b BAE SYSTEMS   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ABSORPTION SPECTROSCOPY; CMOS INTEGRATED CIRCUITS; ENERGY UTILIZATION; INTERFEROMETERS; METALS; MOS DEVICES; OXIDE SEMICONDUCTORS; PHOTONIC DEVICES; PHOTONIC INTEGRATION TECHNOLOGY; SI-GE ALLOYS; SILICON PHOTONICS; WAVEGUIDES;

COMPLEMENTARY METAL OXIDE SEMICONDUCTORS; FREE-CARRIER PLASMA DISPERSION EFFECTS; HIGH ENERGY CONSUMPTION; INTEGRATED PHOTONICS; MICRORING MODULATOR; OPERATION WAVELENGTH; PHOTONIC INTEGRATIONS; PHOTONIC MODULATORS;

LIGHT MODULATORS;

EID: 46349093650     PISSN: 17494885     EISSN: 17494893     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nphoton.2008.99     Document Type: Article

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