Highly integrated optical 4 × 4 crossbar in silicon-on-insulator technology

Journal of Lightwave Technology

Volumn 27, Issue 16, 2009, Pages 3317-3323

  Kaźmierczak, Andrzej ^a   Bogaerts, Wim ^b   Drouard, Emmanuel ^c   Dortu, Fabian ^a   Rojo Romeo, Pedro ^c   Gaffiot, Frederic ^c   Van Thourhout, Dries ^b   Giannone, Domenico ^a  

^a Multitel   (Belgium)

^b IMEC   (Belgium)

^c ECOLE CENTRALE DE LYON   (France)

Author keywords

Add drop filters; Optical crossbar; Optical microring resonators optical on chip interconnections

Indexed keywords

DROPS; OPTICAL RESONATORS;

ADD-DROP FILTERS; CMOS COMPATIBLE; CROSS-BAR STRUCTURES; MICRORING RESONATOR; ON-CHIP INTERCONNECTION; OPTICAL CROSSBAR;

SILICON ON INSULATOR TECHNOLOGY;

EID: 68349127049     PISSN: 07338724     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/JLT.2008.2010462     Document Type: Article

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