High bandwidth on-chip silicon photonic interleaver

Optics Express

Volumn 18, Issue 22, 2010, Pages 23079-23087

  Luo, Lian Wee ^a   Ibrahim, Salah ^b   Nitkowski, Arthur ^a   Ding, Zhi ^b   Poitras, Carl B ^a   Ben Yoo, S J ^b   Lipson, Michal ^a  

^a Cornell University   (United States)

^b University of California Davis   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

PHOTONIC DEVICES;

120 GHZ; ASYMMETRIC MACH-ZEHNDER INTERFEROMETER; BAND EDGE; BROAD SPECTRAL; CHANNEL CROSSTALK; FABRICATION IMPERFECTIONS; HIGH BANDWIDTH; INTERLEAVERS; ON CHIPS; PASS BANDS; RECONFIGURATION CAPABILITY; RING RESONATOR; SILICON PHOTONICS; TRANSMISSION SPECTRUMS;

BANDWIDTH;

EID: 78149404589     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.18.023079     Document Type: Article

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