All-optical high-speed signal processing with silicon-organic hybrid slot waveguides

Nature Photonics

Volumn 3, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 216-219

  Koos, C ^a,e   Vorreau, P ^a   Vallaitis, T ^a   Dumon, P ^b   Bogaerts, W ^b   Baets, R ^a   Esembeson, B ^c   Biaggio, I ^c   Michinobu, T ^d   Diederich, F ^d   Freude, W ^a   Leuthold, J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF KARLSRUHE   (Germany)

^b GHENT UNIVERSITY   (Belgium)

^c LEHIGH UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^e CARL ZEISS SMT AG   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALL-OPTICAL DEMULTIPLEXING; ALL-OPTICAL SWITCHING; HIGH-SPEED SIGNAL PROCESSING; INTEGRATED OPTICAL CIRCUIT; MOLECULAR BEAM DEPOSITION; NONLINEARITY COEFFICIENT; SILICON-ON-INSULATOR DEVICES; SILICONON-INSULATOR TECHNOLOGY (SOI);

CRYSTAL FILTERS; PHOTONIC DEVICES; SIGNAL PROCESSING; SILICON; SILICON ON INSULATOR TECHNOLOGY; WAVEGUIDES;

WAVEGUIDE FILTERS;

EID: 63949084684     PISSN: 17494885     EISSN: 17494893     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nphoton.2009.25     Document Type: Article

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