Slot waveguides with polycrystalline silicon for electrical injection

Optics Express

Volumn 17, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 1527-1534

  Preston, Kyle ^a   Lipson, Michal ^a  

^a Cornell University   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CONDUCTIVE MATERIALS; ELECTRIC FIELDS; LIGHT SOURCES;

CONDUCTIVE SILICON; ELECTRICAL INJECTION; ELECTRICALLY CONDUCTIVE; ELECTRICALLY PUMPED; HORIZONTAL SLOT WAVEGUIDES; INTRINSIC QUALITY FACTORS; SINGLE CRYSTALLINE SILICON; WAVEGUIDE PROPAGATION;

WAVEGUIDES;

EID: 59749100824     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.17.001527     Document Type: Article

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