The nonlinear microring add-drop filter

Optics Express

Volumn 16, Issue 19, 2008, Pages 15130-15136

  Mookherjea, Shayan ^a   Schneider, Mark A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BANDPASS FILTERS; DROPS; OPTICAL BEAM SPLITTERS; OPTICAL RESONATORS;

ADD-DROP FILTERS; DYNAMIC RANGE; INPUT AND OUTPUTS; MICRORINGS; OPTICAL NONLINEARITY; SELF-ADJUSTING;

NONLINEAR OPTICS;

ARTICLE; COMPUTER AIDED DESIGN; COMPUTER SIMULATION; ELECTRONICS; EQUIPMENT; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; FILTRATION; INSTRUMENTATION; NONLINEAR SYSTEM; OPTICS; REFRACTOMETRY; THEORETICAL MODEL;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; COMPUTER-AIDED DESIGN; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; EQUIPMENT FAILURE ANALYSIS; FILTRATION; MINIATURIZATION; MODELS, THEORETICAL; NONLINEAR DYNAMICS; OPTICS; REFRACTOMETRY;

EID: 51849094477     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.16.015130     Document Type: Article

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