Fast and low power Michelson interferometer thermo-optical switch on SOI

Optics Express

Volumn 16, Issue 20, 2008, Pages 15304-15311

  Song, Junfeng ^a,b   Fang, Q ^a   Tao, S H ^a   Liow, T Y ^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

INTERFEROMETERS; MICHELSON INTERFEROMETERS; SILICON ON INSULATOR TECHNOLOGY;

DEEP TRENCH; HEAT ISOLATION; LOW POWER; SWITCH POWER; THERMOOPTICAL SWITCH;

OPTICAL SWITCHES;

ARTICLE; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; HEAT; INSTRUMENTATION; INTERFEROMETRY; METHODOLOGY; OPTICS; SCANNING ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; TEMPERATURE;

EQUIPMENT DESIGN; HEAT; INTERFEROMETRY; MICROSCOPY, ELECTRON, SCANNING; OPTICS; TEMPERATURE;

EID: 54749147528     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.16.015304     Document Type: Article

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