Wide-bandwidth continuously tunable optical delay line using silicon microring resonators

Optics Express

Volumn 18, Issue 25, 2010, Pages 26525-26534

  Cardenas, Jaime ^a   Foster, Mark A ^a   Sherwood Droz, Nicolás ^a   Poitras, Carl B ^a   Lira, Hugo L R ^a   Zhang, Beibei ^b   Gaeta, Alexander L ^a   Khurgin, Jacob B ^b   Morton, Paul ^c   Lipson, Michal ^a  

^a Cornell University   (United States)

^b Johns Hopkins University   (United States)

^c Morton Photonics   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ELECTRIC DELAY LINES; OPTICAL SIGNAL PROCESSING;

BALANCED CONFIGURATIONS; OPTICAL DELAY; SILICON MICRORING RESONATORS; TUNABLE OPTICAL DELAY LINE;

OPTICAL RESONATORS;

SILICON;

ARTICLE; CHEMISTRY; COMPUTER AIDED DESIGN; ELECTRONICS; EQUIPMENT; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; HEAT; OPTICAL INSTRUMENTATION; TRANSDUCER;

COMPUTER-AIDED DESIGN; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; EQUIPMENT FAILURE ANALYSIS; HOT TEMPERATURE; LENSES; MINIATURIZATION; SILICON; TRANSDUCERS;

EID: 78650049509     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.18.026525     Document Type: Article

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