Electrically controlled modulation in a photonic crystal nanocavity

Optics Express

Volumn 17, Issue 18, 2009, Pages 15409-15419

  Englund, Dirk ^a,b   Ellis, Bryan ^a   Edwards, Elizabeth ^a   Sarmiento, Tomas ^a   Harris, James S ^a   Miller, David A B ^a   Vučković, Jelena ^a  

^a Stanford University   (United States)

^b HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

OPTICAL CONSTANTS; OPTICS;

HIGH BANDWIDTH; NANO-CAVITIES; ON-CHIP INTEGRATION; P-I-N JUNCTIONS; PHOTONIC CRYSTAL NANOCAVITY; SUBMICRON SIZE;

PHOTONIC CRYSTALS;

EID: 69949085854     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.17.015409     Document Type: Article

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