Ultraefficient control of light transmission through photonic potential barrier modulation

Optics Letters

Volumn 34, Issue 20, 2009, Pages 3202-3204

  Wang, Xiaolong ^a   Chakravarty, Swapnajit ^a   Lee, Boem Suk ^b   Lin, Cheyun ^b   Chen, Ray T ^b  

^a Omega Optics Inc   (United States)

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

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

LIGHT MODULATION; LIGHT TRANSMISSION; MODULATION; MODULATORS; OPTICAL WAVEGUIDES; PHOTONIC CRYSTALS; PHOTONIC DEVICES; WAVEGUIDE COMPONENTS; WAVEGUIDES;

CALCULATION RESULTS; ENGINEERING DESIGN; MACH ZEHNDER MODULATOR; MODULATION EFFICIENCY; PHOTONIC CRYSTAL WAVEGUIDE; POTENTIAL BARRIERS; QUANTUM TUNNELING EFFECTS; SILICON PHOTONIC CRYSTALS;

LIGHT MODULATORS;

EID: 70450212429     PISSN: 01469592     EISSN: 15394794     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OL.34.003202     Document Type: Article

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