On chip tunable micro ring resonator actuated by electrowetting

Optics Express

Volumn 17, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 1116-1125

  Shamai, Romi ^a   Levy, Uriel ^a  

^a HEBREW UNIVERSITY OF JERUSALEM   (Israel)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DROPS; REFRACTIVE INDEX; RESONATORS; WAVEGUIDES; WETTING;

EFFECTIVE REFRACTIVE INDEX; ELECTRICAL CONTROL; ELECTROWETTING ON DIELECTRICS; HIGH INDEX CONTRAST; LOW-POWER CONSUMPTION; MICRORING RESONATOR; MICRORING RESONATOR (MRR); TRANSMISSION SPECTRUMS;

OPTICAL RESONATORS;

EID: 58449129698     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.17.001116     Document Type: Article

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