Complete optical isolation created by indirect interband photonic transitions

Nature Photonics

Volumn 3, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 91-94

  Yu, Zongfu ^a   Fan, Shanhui ^b  

^a STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b NONE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

INTEGRATED PHOTONICS; ON-CHIP ISOLATION; OPTOELECTRONIC APPLICATIONS; PHOTONIC STRUCTURE; REFRACTIVE INDEX MODULATION; SCALE OF INTEGRATION; STANDARD MATERIALS; TRANSITION PROCESS;

CMOS INTEGRATED CIRCUITS; PHOTONICS; REFRACTIVE INDEX; SILICON;

MICROWAVE ISOLATORS;

EID: 59349097272     PISSN: 17494885     EISSN: 17494893     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nphoton.2008.273     Document Type: Article

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