Electro-optical modulator in a polymerinfiltrated silicon slotted photonic crystal waveguide heterostructure resonator

Optics Express

Volumn 17, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 304-313

  Wülbern, Jan Hendrik ^a   Petrov, Alexander ^a   Eich, Manfred ^a  

^a HAMBURG UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLADDING (COATING); COREMAKING; ELECTRIC FIELDS; ELECTRODES; LIGHT MODULATORS; MODULATION; MODULATORS; NONLINEAR OPTICS; OPTICAL WAVEGUIDES; RESONATORS; WAVEGUIDES;

ELECTRO-OPTIC MODULATORS; ELECTROOPTICAL MODULATORS; EXTERNAL ELECTRIC FIELD; NON-LINEAR OPTICAL POLYMERS; OPTICAL FIELD ENHANCEMENT; PHOTONIC CRYSTAL HETEROSTRUCTURE; PHOTONIC CRYSTAL WAVEGUIDE; TWO-DIMENSIONAL PHOTONIC CRYSTALS;

PHOTONIC CRYSTALS;

SILICON;

ARTICLE; CHEMISTRY; CRYSTALLIZATION; ELECTROCHEMISTRY; ELECTRODE; ELECTRONICS; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; INSTRUMENTATION; KINETICS; METHODOLOGY; NANOTECHNOLOGY; OPTICS;

CRYSTALLIZATION; ELECTROCHEMISTRY; ELECTRODES; ELECTRONICS; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; KINETICS; NANOTECHNOLOGY; OPTICS AND PHOTONICS; SILICON;

EID: 58449122537     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.17.000304     Document Type: Article

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