Characteristics of microring resonators with waveguide-resonator coupling modulation

Journal of Lightwave Technology

Volumn 27, Issue 17, 2009, Pages 3800-3811

  Sacher, Wesley D ^a   Poon, Joyce K S ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

Author keywords

Integrated optics; Optical modulation; Optical resonators

Indexed keywords

COUPLING STRENGTHS; EXTINCTION RATIOS; FREE SPECTRAL RANGE; HIGH QUALITY FACTORS; LOW-DISTORTION; MICRORING RESONATOR; MICRORINGS; MODULATION RATES; OPTICAL MODULATION; OUTPUT CHARACTERISTICS; RESONATOR COUPLING;

BANDPASS FILTERS; INTEGRATED OPTICS; LIGHT MODULATION; LIGHT TRANSMISSION; OPTICAL MATERIALS; PHOTONICS;

OPTICAL RESONATORS;

EID: 69249199788     PISSN: 07338724     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/JLT.2009.2016852     Document Type: Article

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