Controlled storage of light in silicon cavities

Optics Express

Volumn 18, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 3014-3022

  Elshaari, Ali W ^a   Aboketat, Abdelsalam ^a   Preble, Steian F ^a  

^a Kate Gleason College of Engineering   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CARRIER LOSS; DELAY ELEMENTS; DYNAMIC TUNING; SILICON CAVITY; STORAGE TIME;

EID: 76149104247     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.18.003014     Document Type: Article

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