Conductor loss of capacitively loaded slow wave electrodes for high-speed photonic devices

Journal of Lightwave Technology

Volumn 29, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 48-52

  Shin, Jaehyuk ^a   Sakamoto, Steven R ^b,c   Dagli, Nadir ^a  

^a University of California   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c LOCKHEED MARTIN   (United States)

Author keywords

Attenuation; coplanar transmission lines; coplanar waveguides; optical modulators; traveling wave devices

Indexed keywords

ANALYTICAL EXPRESSIONS; ATTENUATION; CAPACITIVE ELEMENTS; CHARACTERISTIC IMPEDANCE; CLOSED-FORM EQUATIONS; COMMONLY USED; CONDUCTOR LOSS; COPLANAR LINES; COPLANAR TRANSMISSION LINES; ELECTRO-OPTIC MODULATORS; HIGH-SPEED; III-V COMPOUND SEMICONDUCTOR; MICROWAVE ATTENUATION; MICROWAVE LOSS; OPTICAL MODULATORS; SLOW WAVE; TRAVELING WAVE DEVICES;

COPLANAR WAVEGUIDES; ELECTRIC LINES; ELECTRODES; ELECTROOPTICAL DEVICES; PHOTONIC DEVICES; SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICES; TRANSMISSION LINE THEORY; WAVE EQUATIONS;

LIGHT MODULATORS;

EID: 78650526684     PISSN: 07338724     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/JLT.2010.2091624     Document Type: Article

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