Ultra-small Silicon photonic wire waveguide devices

IEICE Transactions on Electronics

Volumn E92-C, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 217-223

  Chu, Tao ^a   Yamada, Hirohito ^b   Nakamura, Shigeru ^a   Ishizaka, Masashige ^a   Tokushima, Masatoshi ^a   Urino, Yutaka ^a   Ishida, Satomi ^c   Arakawa, Yasuhiko ^c  

^a NEC CORPORATION   (Japan)

^b TOHOKU UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

Author keywords

Optical devices; Optical waveguide; Photonic wire; Silicon photonics

Indexed keywords

OPTICAL DEVICES; OPTICAL SWITCHES; OPTICAL WAVEGUIDES; PHOTONICS; WAVEGUIDES; WIRE;

DEVICES AND SYSTEMS; LOW-POWER CONSUMPTION; OPTICAL DIRECTIONAL COUPLERS; PHOTONIC WIRES; RECONFIGURABLE OPTICAL ADD/DROP MULTIPLEXERS; SILICON PHOTONIC DEVICES; SILICON PHOTONIC WIRES; SILICON PHOTONICS;

PHOTONIC DEVICES;

EID: 68449090838     PISSN: 09168524     EISSN: 17451353     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1587/transele.E92.C.217     Document Type: Article

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