Coupled-ring-resonator-based silicon modulator for enhanced performance

Optics Express

Volumn 16, Issue 17, 2008, Pages 13342-13348

  Li, Yunchu ^a   Zhang, Lin ^a   Song, Muping ^a,b   Zhang, Bo ^a   Yang, Jeng Yuan ^a   Beausoleil, Raymond G ^c   Willner, Alan E ^a   Daniel Dapkus, P ^a  

^a Univ of Southern California ^*  (United States)

^b ZHEJIANG UNIVERSITY   (China)

^c HEWLETT PACKARD LABORATORIES   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MODULATION; NOTCH FILTERS;

COUPLING COEFFICIENT; DISPERSION TOLERANCE; ELECTRICAL POWER; EXTINCTION RATIOS; MODULATED SIGNAL; MODULATION SPEED; NON-RETURN-TO-ZERO DATUM; SILICON MODULATORS;

MODULATORS;

SILICON;

ARTICLE; CHEMISTRY; COMPUTER AIDED DESIGN; COMPUTER SIMULATION; FIBER OPTICS; INSTRUMENTATION; LIGHT; OPTICS; RADIATION SCATTERING; SIGNAL PROCESSING; TELECOMMUNICATION; THEORETICAL MODEL; TRANSDUCER;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; COMPUTER-AIDED DESIGN; FIBER OPTICS; LIGHT; MODELS, THEORETICAL; OPTICS; SCATTERING, RADIATION; SIGNAL PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; SILICON; TELECOMMUNICATIONS; TRANSDUCERS;

EID: 50049115563     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.16.013342     Document Type: Article

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