Fast light in silicon ring resonator with resonance-splitting

Optics Express

Volumn 17, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 933-940

  Li, Qiang ^a   Zhang, Ziyang ^b   Wang, Jing ^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; OPTICAL WAVEGUIDES; RESONANCE; SILICON;

ANOMALOUS DISPERSION; COUPLED MODE THEORY; EXPERIMENTAL DEMONSTRATIONS; LOW DISTORTION; MUTUAL COUPLING; NEW APPROACHES; SILICON RING RESONATOR; THEORETICAL CALCULATIONS;

RESONATORS;

EID: 58649105304     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.17.000933     Document Type: Article

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