Electrooptically-active slow-light-enhanced silicon slot photonic crystal waveguides

IEEE Journal on Selected Topics in Quantum Electronics

Volumn 15, Issue 5, 2009, Pages 1506-1508

  Chen, Xiaonan ^a   Wang, Alan X ^b   Chakravarty, Swapnajit ^b   Chen, Ray T ^a  

^a The University of Texas at Austin   (United States)

^b Omega Optics Inc   (United States)

Author keywords

Optical to electrical detection; Sensitivity enhancement; Sensor application; Slot photonic crystal waveguide

Indexed keywords

COMBINED EFFECT; ENERGY CONFINEMENT; ENHANCEMENT FACTOR; OPTICAL-TO-ELECTRICAL DETECTION; PHOTONIC CRYSTAL WAVEGUIDE; SENSITIVITY ENHANCEMENT; SENSOR APPLICATION; SENSOR APPLICATIONS; SILICON PHOTONIC CRYSTALS; SLOT PHOTONIC CRYSTAL WAVEGUIDE; SLOW LIGHT;

LASER OPTICS; OPTICAL WAVEGUIDES; SENSORS; WAVEGUIDES;

PHOTONIC CRYSTALS;

EID: 70350189948     PISSN: 1077260X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/JSTQE.2009.2016980     Document Type: Conference Paper

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