Silicon nanophotonic waveguides and their applications

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 7134, Issue , 2008, Pages

  Bogaerts, Wim ^a   Liu, Liu ^a   Selvaraja, Shankar Kumar ^a   Dumon, Pieter ^a   Brouckaert, Joost ^a   Taillaert, Dirk ^a   Vermeulen, Diedrik ^a   Roelkens, Gunther ^a   Van Thourhout, Dries ^a   Baets, Roel ^a  

^a IMEC   (Belgium)

Author keywords

Arrayed waveguide grating; Nanophotonics; Optical filter; Photonic wire; Ring resonator; Silicon photonics

Indexed keywords

193-NM LITHOGRAPHIES; APPLICATION FIELDS; ARRAYED WAVEGUIDE GRATING; NANOPHOTONIC WAVEGUIDES; PHOTONIC WIRE; RING RESONATOR; SILICON PHOTONICS; STANDARD CMOS TECHNOLOGIES;

APPLICATIONS; ARRAYED WAVEGUIDE GRATINGS; CMOS INTEGRATED CIRCUITS; NANOPHOTONICS; OPTICAL FILTERS; OPTICAL RESONATORS; OPTICAL WAVEGUIDES; PHOTONIC DEVICES; PHOTONICS; RESONATORS; TEXTILE FIBERS; WIRE;

WAVEGUIDES;

EID: 62449095741     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.803440     Document Type: Conference Paper

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