Ultracompact SOI microring add-drop filter with wide bandwidth and wide FSR

IEEE Photonics Technology Letters

Volumn 21, Issue 10, 2009, Pages 651-653

  Prabhu, Ashok M ^a   Tsay, Alan ^a   Han, Zhanghua ^a   Van, Vien ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA   (Canada)

Author keywords

Loss measurement; Microring resonators; On chip optical interconnects; Optical filters; Optical resonators; Silicon photonics; Wavelength division multiplexing (WDM) add drop filters

Indexed keywords

LOSS MEASUREMENT; MICRORING RESONATORS; ON-CHIP OPTICAL INTERCONNECTS; SILICON PHOTONICS; WAVELENGTH-DIVISION-MULTIPLEXING (WDM) ADD-DROP FILTERS;

DROPS; INTEGRATED OPTICS; LOSSES; OPTICAL INTERCONNECTS; OPTICAL RESONATORS; PHOTONIC DEVICES; SWITCHING NETWORKS; WAVELENGTH DIVISION MULTIPLEXING;

OPTICAL FILTERS;

EID: 67049086632     PISSN: 10411135     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/LPT.2009.2015889     Document Type: Article

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