Statistics of light transport in 235-ring silicon coupled-resonator optical waveguides

Optics Express

Volumn 18, Issue 25, 2010, Pages 26505-26516

  Cooper, Michael L ^a   Gupta, Greeshma ^a   Schneider, Mark A ^a   Green, William M J ^b   Assefa, Solomon ^b   Xia, Fengnian ^b   Vlasov, Yurii A ^b   Mookherjea, Shayan ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b IBM T J WATSON RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FREQUENCY BANDS; OPTICAL WAVEGUIDES; RESONATORS; WAVEGUIDES;

COUPLED-RESONATOR OPTICAL WAVEGUIDES; LIGHT TRANSPORT; MICRORINGS; STATISTICAL SIGNATURES; TIME DOMAIN;

SLOW LIGHT;

ARTICLE; COMPUTER AIDED DESIGN; COMPUTER SIMULATION; EQUIPMENT; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; INSTRUMENTATION; LIGHT; RADIATION SCATTERING; REFRACTOMETRY; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; STATISTICAL MODEL; TRANSDUCER;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; COMPUTER-AIDED DESIGN; DATA INTERPRETATION, STATISTICAL; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; EQUIPMENT FAILURE ANALYSIS; LIGHT; MODELS, STATISTICAL; REFRACTOMETRY; SCATTERING, RADIATION; TRANSDUCERS;

EID: 78650049508     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.18.026505     Document Type: Article

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