Pulse delay and advancement in SOI microring resonators with mutual mode coupling

Journal of Lightwave Technology

Volumn 27, Issue 21, 2009, Pages 4734-4743

  Wang, Tao ^a   Liu, Fangfei ^a   Wang, Jing ^b   Tian, Yue ^c   Zhang, Ziyang ^b   Ye, Tong ^a   Qiu, Min ^b   Su, Yikai ^a  

^a SHANGHAI JIAO TONG UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b ROYAL INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Sweden)

^c NONE

Author keywords

Group delay; Microring resonator; Pulse propagation; Silicon photonics

Indexed keywords

CRYSTAL RESONATORS; GROUP DELAY; OPTICAL RESONATORS; SILICON PHOTONICS; WAVEGUIDES;

COUPLED RESONATOR; DELAYED PULSE; MICRORING RESONATOR; MODE COUPLING; PULSE DELAY; PULSE PROPAGATION; RING RESONATOR;

WHISPERING GALLERY MODES;

EID: 70349428493     PISSN: 07338724     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/JLT.2009.2026590     Document Type: Article

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