Eight-channel reconfigurable microring filters with tunable frequency, extinction ratio and bandwidth

Optics Express

Volumn 18, Issue 17, 2010, Pages 18067-18076

  Shen, Hao ^a   Khan, Maroof H ^a,b   Fan, Li ^a   Zhao, Lin ^a   Xuan, Yi ^a   Ouyang, Jing ^a   Varghese, Leo T ^a   Qi, Minghao ^a  

^a Purdue University   (United States)

^b PURDUE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BANDWIDTH; FIBER OPTICS; LIGHT EXTINCTION; MULTIPLEXING; MULTIPLEXING EQUIPMENT; OPTICAL FILTERS; OPTICAL RESONATORS;

3 DB BANDWIDTH; ARBITRARY WAVEFORM GENERATION; CENTER FREQUENCY; CHANNEL SELECTIVITY; CONTACT PADS; EXTINCTION RATIOS; IN-CHANNELS; INTERNATIONAL TELECOMMUNICATIONS; LARGE SCALE INTEGRATION; MACH-ZEHNDER; MICRORING FILTER; MICRORING RESONATOR; MULTI-CHANNEL FILTER; RADIO FREQUENCIES; RE-CONFIGURABLE; RECONFIGURABLE OPTICAL FILTERS; SILICON CHIP; SPECTRAL SHAPING; TUNABLE FREQUENCY;

DENSE WAVELENGTH DIVISION MULTIPLEXING;

NANOMATERIAL; SILICON;

ARTICLE; ELECTRONICS; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; INSTRUMENTATION; NANOTECHNOLOGY; OPTICAL INSTRUMENTATION; SCANNING ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; SEMICONDUCTOR; THEORETICAL MODEL;

ELECTRONICS; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; MICROSCOPY, ELECTRON, SCANNING; MODELS, THEORETICAL; NANOSTRUCTURES; NANOTECHNOLOGY; OPTICAL DEVICES; SEMICONDUCTORS; SILICON;

EID: 77956392027     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.18.018067     Document Type: Article

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