Submilliwatt, ultrafast and broadband electro-optic silicon switches

Optics Express

Volumn 18, Issue 24, 2010, Pages 25225-25231

  Dong, Po ^a   Liao, Shirong ^a   Liang, Hong ^a   Shafiiha, Roshanak ^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

CARRIER CONCENTRATION; ELECTRIC SWITCHES; REFRACTIVE INDEX; SEMICONDUCTOR QUANTUM WELLS;

COMMONLY USED; CONCENTRATION RANGES; DRIVE VOLTAGE; ELECTRO-OPTICS; FAST SWITCHING; FREE CARRIERS; OPTICAL BAND WIDTH; OPTICAL CROSS-TALK; P-I-N JUNCTIONS; PHASE SWITCHING; REFRACTIVE INDEX CHANGES; SILICON WAVEGUIDE; SWITCHING POWER; SWITCHING TIME; ULTRA-FAST;

SWITCHING;

EID: 78649698228     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.18.025225     Document Type: Article

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