Compact, lower-power-consumption wavelength tunable laser fabricated with silicon photonic-wire waveguide micro-ring resonators

Optics Express

Volumn 17, Issue 16, 2009, Pages 14063-14068

  Chu, Tao ^a,b   Fujioka, Nobuhide ^a,b   Ishizaka, Masashige ^a,b  

^a NEC CORPORATION   (Japan)

^b Optoelectronic Industry and Technology Development Association OITDA   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ELECTRIC POWER UTILIZATION; FABRICATION; LASERS; OPTICAL COMMUNICATION; OPTICAL RESONATORS; OPTICAL WAVEGUIDES; PHOTONIC DEVICES; RESONATORS; SILICON; WAVEGUIDES;

EXTERNAL RESONATORS; LOWER-POWER CONSUMPTION; MICRORING RESONATOR; SILICON PHOTONIC WIRES; SILICON PHOTONICS; SILICON RESONATORS; WAVELENGTH TUNABLE LASERS; WIDE TUNING RANGE;

LASER TUNING;

SILICON;

ARTICLE; CHEMISTRY; COMPUTER AIDED DESIGN; COMPUTER SIMULATION; ELECTRONICS; EQUIPMENT; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; INSTRUMENTATION; LASER; LIGHT; PHOTON; RADIATION SCATTERING; REFRACTOMETRY; TELECOMMUNICATION; THEORETICAL MODEL; TRANSDUCER;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; COMPUTER-AIDED DESIGN; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; EQUIPMENT FAILURE ANALYSIS; LASERS; LIGHT; MINIATURIZATION; MODELS, THEORETICAL; PHOTONS; REFRACTOMETRY; SCATTERING, RADIATION; SILICON; TELECOMMUNICATIONS; TRANSDUCERS;

EID: 68449083433     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.17.014063     Document Type: Article

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