Group delay enhancement in circular arrays of microring resonators

IEEE Photonics Technology Letters

Volumn 20, Issue 12, 2008, Pages 997-999

  Van, V ^a   Ding, T N ^b   Herman, W N ^b   Ho, P T ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA   (Canada)

^b LABORATORY FOR PHYSICAL SCIENCES   (United States)

Author keywords

Maximally flat group delay filters; Microring arrays; Microring resonators; Slow light

Indexed keywords

CIRCULAR ARRAYS; COUPLING COEFFICIENT; DISPERSIONLESS; LATTICE STRUCTURES; MAXIMALLY FLAT; MICRORING RESONATOR; MICRORING RESONATORS; MICRORINGS; OPTICAL DELAY; POTENTIAL APPLICATIONS; SLOW WAVE;

MICROSTRIP DEVICES; OPTICAL RESONATORS; SLOW LIGHT;

GROUP DELAY;

EID: 64249117860     PISSN: 10411135     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/LPT.2008.923742     Document Type: Article

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