System performances of on-chip silicon microring delay line for RZ, CSRZ, RZ-DB and RZ-AMI signals

Journal of Lightwave Technology

Volumn 26, Issue 23, 2008, Pages 3744-3751

  Li, Qiang ^a   Liu, Fangfai ^b   Zhang, Ziyang ^b   Qiu, Min ^b   Su, Yikai ^a  

^a SHANGHAI JIAO TONG UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b ROYAL INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Delay line; Microring resonator; Modulation format; Silicon photonics

Indexed keywords

ACTIVE FILTERS; BIT ERROR RATE; INTEGRATED OPTOELECTRONICS; MODULATION; NONMETALS; OPTICAL COMMUNICATION; OPTICAL FILTERS; OPTICAL RESONATORS; PHOTODEGRADATION; PHOTONIC DEVICES; WAVES;

ALL-PASS FILTERS; CARRIER SUPPRESSED RETURN TO ZEROS; COUPLED MODE THEORIES; COUPLED-RESONATOR OPTICAL WAVEGUIDES; DELAY LINE; DELAY TIME; DUOBINARY; ERROR-FREE OPERATIONS; GROUP DELAYS; MICRO RINGS; MICRORING RESONATOR; MODULATION FORMAT; ON CHIPS; PATTERN DEPENDENCES; RESONANCE STRUCTURES; RETURN TO ZEROS; RING RESONATORS; SIGNAL DEGRADATIONS; SILICON ON INSULATORS; SILICON PHOTONICS; SLOW LIGHTS;

RESONATORS;

EID: 60949095648     PISSN: 07338724     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/JLT.2008.2005510     Document Type: Article

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