First demonstration of long-haul transmission using silicon microring modulators

Optics Express

Volumn 18, Issue 15, 2010, Pages 15544-15552

  Biberman, Aleksandr ^a   Manipatruni, Sasikanth ^b   Ophir, Noam ^a   Chen, Long ^b   Lipson, Michal ^b   Bergman, Keren ^a  

^a Department of Electrical Engineering Columbia University New York ^*  (United States)

^b Cornell University   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AVIATION; DATA FLOW ANALYSIS; ELECTROOPTICAL DEVICES; LIGHT TRANSMISSION; TELECOMMUNICATION NETWORKS;

BANDWIDTH-DISTANCE PRODUCTS; CHIP-SCALE; COMPARATIVE ANALYSIS; DATA CENTERS; ELECTRO-OPTIC MODULATORS; ERROR FREE TRANSMISSION; HIGH PERFORMANCE COMPUTING SYSTEMS; HIGH-SPEED; LONG-HAUL TRANSMISSION; MEMORY ACCESS; MICRORING MODULATOR; MICRORING RESONATOR; MODULATION RATES; OPTICAL DATA; POWER PENALTY; PROPAGATION DISTANCES; SIGNAL INTEGRITY; SILICON MODULATORS; SILICON PHOTONICS;

LIGHT MODULATORS;

EID: 77954982342     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.18.015544     Document Type: Article

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