Research of high speed optical switch based on compound semiconductor

Chinese Science Bulletin

Volumn 54, Issue 20, 2009, Pages 3679-3684

  Wang, MingHua ^a   Qi, Wei ^a,b   Yu, Hui ^a   Jiang, XiaoQing ^a   Yang, JianYi ^a  

^a ZHEJIANG UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b ZHEJIANG UNIVERSITY CITY COLLEGE   (China)

Author keywords

Carrier injection; Multimode interference; Optical switch; Total internal reflection

Indexed keywords

EID: 70449334532     PISSN: 10016538     EISSN: 18619541     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11434-009-0336-7     Document Type: Article

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