Widely tunable microwave phase shifter based on silicon-on-insulator dual-microring resonator

Optics Express

Volumn 18, Issue 6, 2010, Pages 6172-6182

  Pu, Minhao ^a   Liu, Liu ^a   Xue, Weiqi ^a   Ding, Yunhong ^a,b   Ou, Haiyan ^a   Yvind, Kresten ^a   Hvam, Jørn M ^a  

^a TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF DENMARK   (Denmark)

^b HUAZHONG UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MICROSENSORS; MICROWAVES; OPTICAL RESONATORS; PHASE SHIFTERS;

ELECTRICALLY TUNABLE; MAXIMUM PHASE; MICRORING RESONATOR; PHASE-SHIFTING; QUASI-LINEAR; RF-POWER; SILICON ON INSULATOR; TUNABLE MICROWAVE; WIDELY TUNABLE;

PHASE SHIFT;

ARTICLE; ELECTRIC CONDUCTIVITY; EQUIPMENT; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; INSTRUMENTATION; MICROWAVE RADIATION; OPTICAL INSTRUMENTATION; TELECOMMUNICATION; TRANSDUCER;

ELECTRIC CONDUCTIVITY; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; EQUIPMENT FAILURE ANALYSIS; MICROWAVES; OPTICAL DEVICES; TELECOMMUNICATIONS; TRANSDUCERS;

EID: 77949637899     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.18.006172     Document Type: Article

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