CMOS-compatible athermal silicon microring resonators

Optics Express

Volumn 18, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 3487-3493

  Guha, Biswajeet ^a,b   Kyotoku, Bernardo B C ^a,b   Lipson, Michal ^a,b  

^a Cornell University   (United States)

^b FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF PERNAMBUCO   (Brazil)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

OPTICAL INSTRUMENTS; OPTICAL RESONATORS;

A-THERMAL; CMOS COMPATIBLE; FUNDAMENTAL PRINCIPLES; MICRORING RESONATOR; OPTICAL MODES; RING RESONATOR; TEMPERATURE RANGE;

PHOTONIC DEVICES;

SILICON;

ARTICLE; CHEMISTRY; ELECTRONICS; EQUIPMENT; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; HEAT; INSTRUMENTATION; INTERFEROMETRY; OPTICAL INSTRUMENTATION; REFRACTOMETRY; TRANSDUCER;

ELECTRONICS; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; EQUIPMENT FAILURE ANALYSIS; HOT TEMPERATURE; INTERFEROMETRY; OPTICAL DEVICES; REFRACTOMETRY; SILICON; TRANSDUCERS;

EID: 77149120761     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.18.003487     Document Type: Article

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