Fast light generation through velocity manipulation in two vertically-stacked ring resonators

Optics Express

Volumn 18, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 2973-2986

  Ciminelli, C ^a   Campanella, C E ^a   Dell'Olio, F ^a   Armenise, M N ^a  

^a POLITECNICO DI BARI   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

INDUSTRIAL RESEARCH; LASER PULSES; LIGHT PULSE GENERATORS; LIGHT VELOCITY; OPTICAL RESONATORS; PHOTONIC CRYSTALS; PHOTONIC DEVICES; RESONANCE; SLOW LIGHT; WAVEGUIDES;

ALL-OPTICAL; ALL-OPTICAL COMMUNICATION; ANTI-SYMMETRIC; BUS WAVEGUIDES; DEGENERATE MODES; FAST LIGHT; GROUP VELOCITIES; HIGH-CAPACITY; IN-VACUUM; INTEGRATED OPTICAL STRUCTURE; INTEGRATED PHOTONIC DEVICES; OPERATION REGIME; OPTICAL PULSE; PHOTONIC CRYSTAL CAVITIES; PHYSICAL EFFECTS; RESEARCH CHALLENGES; RESEARCH FIELDS; RESONANCE WAVELENGTHS; RESONANT DEVICE; RESONANT MODE; RING RESONATOR; SPEED OF LIGHT; WAVEGUIDING STRUCTURES; WAVELENGTH RANGES;

OPTICAL COMMUNICATION;

EID: 76149085861     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.18.002973     Document Type: Article

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