Wavelength-tunable silicon microring modulator

Optics Express

Volumn 18, Issue 11, 2010, Pages 10941-10946

  Dong, Po ^a   Shafiiha, Roshanak ^a   Liao, Shirong ^a   Liang, Hong ^a   Feng, Ning Ning ^a   Feng, Dazeng ^a   Li, Guoliang ^b   Zheng, Xuezhe ^b   Krishnamoorthy, Ashok V ^b   Asghari, Mehdi ^a  

^a KOTURA INC   (United States)

^b Sun Labs   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MODULATION; OPTICAL INTERCONNECTS;

DATA BANDWIDTH; DRIVING VOLTAGES; EXTINCTION RATIOS; HIGH SPEED MEASUREMENTS; LOW POWER; MICROHEATER; MICRORING MODULATOR; NARROW BANDWIDTH; OPTICAL INTERCONNECT; RESONANT WAVELENGTHS; SILICON MICROCAVITIES; TUNABILITIES; WAVELENGTH TUNABLE;

LIGHT MODULATORS;

SILICON;

ARTICLE; ELECTRONICS; EQUIPMENT; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; HEATING; INSTRUMENTATION; REFRACTOMETRY; TELECOMMUNICATION; TRANSDUCER;

EQUIPMENT DESIGN; EQUIPMENT FAILURE ANALYSIS; HEATING; MINIATURIZATION; REFRACTOMETRY; SILICON; TELECOMMUNICATIONS; TRANSDUCERS;

EID: 77952858364     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.18.010941     Document Type: Article

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