Free-standing lithium niobate microring resonators for hybrid integrated optics

IEEE Photonics Technology Letters

Volumn 22, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 251-253

  Koechlin, Manuel ^a   Sulser, Frederik ^a   Sitar, Zlatko ^b   Poberaj, Gorazd ^a   Günter, Peter ^a  

^a ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^b North Carolina State University   (United States)

Author keywords

Integrated optics; Lithium niobate; Microring resonators

Indexed keywords

BENZOCYCLOBUTENE; EXTINCTION RATIOS; FREE SPECTRAL RANGE; HYBRID INTEGRATED OPTICS; LITHIUM NIOBATE; LITHIUM NIOBATE THIN FILMS; MICRO POSITIONING; MICRORING RESONATOR; MICRORING RESONATORS; MICRORINGS; VERTICAL COUPLING;

BUTENES; GALLIUM ALLOYS; GALLIUM NITRIDE; INTEGRATED OPTICS; NIOBIUM COMPOUNDS; OPTICAL MATERIALS; OPTICAL RESONATORS; PHOTONICS; REFRACTIVE INDEX; WAVE TRANSMISSION; WAVEGUIDES;

LITHIUM;

EID: 77955202817     PISSN: 10411135     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/LPT.2009.2038174     Document Type: Article

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