Compact optical temporal differentiator based on silicon microring resonator

Optics Express

Volumn 16, Issue 20, 2008, Pages 15880-15886

  Liu, Fangfei ^a   Wang, Tao ^a   Qiang, Li ^a   Ye, Tong ^a   Zhang, Ziyang ^b   Qiu, Min ^b   Su, Yikai ^a  

^a SHANGHAI JIAO TONG UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b ROYAL INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

OPTICAL RESONATORS; RESONATORS; SILICON ON INSULATOR TECHNOLOGY;

CRITICAL COUPLING; DIFFERENTIATORS; ELECTRONIC DEVICE; FIRST ORDER DERIVATIVES; MICRORING RESONATOR; OPTICAL DIFFERENTIATOR; SILICON MICRORING RESONATORS; SILICON-ON- INSULATORS (SOI);

SILICON;

SILICON;

ARTICLE; CHEMISTRY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; ELECTRONICS; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; INFORMATION PROCESSING; INSTRUMENTATION; NORMAL DISTRIBUTION; OPTICS; SIGNAL PROCESSING; STATISTICAL MODEL; THEORETICAL MODEL; TIME; TRANSDUCER;

AUTOMATIC DATA PROCESSING; COMPUTER SIMULATION; ELECTRONICS; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; MODELS, STATISTICAL; MODELS, THEORETICAL; NORMAL DISTRIBUTION; OPTICS; SIGNAL PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; SILICON; TIME FACTORS; TRANSDUCERS;

EID: 54749119331     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.16.015880     Document Type: Article

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