Silicon-polymer hybrid slot waveguide ring-resonator modulator

Optics Express

Volumn 19, Issue 5, 2011, Pages 3952-3961

  Gould, Michael ^a   Baehr Jones, Tom ^a   Ding, Ran ^a   Huang, Su ^a   Luo, Jingdong ^a   Jen, Alex K Y ^a   Fedeli, Jean Marc ^b   Fournier, Maryse ^b   Hochberg, Michael ^a  

^a University of Washington   (United States)

^b CEA LETI   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ELECTRON BEAMS; PHOTOLITHOGRAPHY; RESONATORS; WAVEGUIDES;

1550 NM; OPTICAL LITHOGRAPHY; OPTICAL WAVELENGTH; PLASMA DISPERSION EFFECTS; POLYMER HYBRID; SLOT WAVEGUIDE; TUNABILITIES;

LIGHT MODULATORS;

POLYMER; SILICON;

ARTICLE; CHEMISTRY; EQUIPMENT; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; INSTRUMENTATION; REFRACTOMETRY; TELECOMMUNICATION;

EQUIPMENT DESIGN; EQUIPMENT FAILURE ANALYSIS; POLYMERS; REFRACTOMETRY; SILICON; TELECOMMUNICATIONS;

EID: 79952150952     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.19.003952     Document Type: Article

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