Fano-resonance-based Mach-Zehnder optical switch employing dual-bus coupled ring resonator as two-beam interferometer

Optics Express

Volumn 17, Issue 9, 2009, Pages 7708-7716

  Wang, Fan ^a   Wang, Xiang ^a   Zhou, Haifeng ^a   Zhou, Qiang ^a   Jiang, Yinlei Hao Xiaoqing ^a   Wang, Minghua ^a   Yang, Jianyi ^a  

^a ZHEJIANG UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BUSES; FINITE DIFFERENCE TIME DOMAIN METHOD; INTERFEROMETERS; NATURAL FREQUENCIES; OPTICAL RESONATORS; RESONANCE; RESONATORS; SWITCHING; TIME DOMAIN ANALYSIS; TRANSFER MATRIX METHOD;

FINITE DIFFERENCE TIME DOMAIN SIMULATIONS; HIGH EXTINCTION RATIOS; MACH-ZEHNDER OPTICAL SWITCHES; OPTICAL SWITCHING; PHASE DIFFERENCE; STRUCTURAL PARAMETER; TRANSMISSION SPECTRUMS; TWO BEAM INTERFEROMETER;

OPTICAL SWITCHES;

ARTICLE; COMPUTER AIDED DESIGN; EQUIPMENT; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; INSTRUMENTATION; INTERFEROMETRY; REFRACTOMETRY; REPRODUCIBILITY; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SIGNAL PROCESSING; TRANSDUCER; VIBRATION;

COMPUTER-AIDED DESIGN; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; EQUIPMENT FAILURE ANALYSIS; INTERFEROMETRY; REFRACTOMETRY; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SIGNAL PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; TRANSDUCERS; VIBRATION;

EID: 66549104103     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.17.007708     Document Type: Article

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