Electrically-pumped compact hybrid silicon microring lasers for optical interconnects

Optics Express

Volumn 17, Issue 22, 2009, Pages 20355-20364

  Liang, Di ^a   Fiorentino, Marco ^b   Okumura, Tadashi ^a   Chang, Hsu Hao ^a   Spencer, Daryl T ^a   Kuo, Ying Hao ^a   Fang, Alexander W ^a   Dai, Daoxin ^a   Beausoleil, Raymond G ^b   Bowers, John E ^a,b  

^a University of California   (United States)

^b HEWLETT PACKARD LABORATORIES   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

INTEGRATED CIRCUIT INTERCONNECTS; OPTICAL INTERCONNECTS; PUMPING (LASER);

COMPACT STRUCTURES; CONTINUOUS WAVE MODES; ELECTRICALLY PUMPED; EXTINCTION RATIOS; MICRO-RING LASERS; ON-CHIP OPTICAL INTERCONNECTS; OPERATION TEMPERATURE; SELF ALIGNED PROCESS;

OPTICALLY PUMPED LASERS;

SILICON;

ARTICLE; CHEMISTRY; COMPUTER AIDED DESIGN; ELECTRONICS; EQUIPMENT; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; INSTRUMENTATION; LASER; OPTICAL INSTRUMENTATION; REFRACTOMETRY; REPRODUCIBILITY; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

COMPUTER-AIDED DESIGN; ELECTRONICS; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; EQUIPMENT FAILURE ANALYSIS; LASERS; LENSES; MINIATURIZATION; REFRACTOMETRY; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SILICON;

EID: 70749110730     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.17.020355     Document Type: Article

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