Integrated recirculating optical hybrid silicon buffers

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 7943, Issue , 2011, Pages

  Kurczveil, Géza ^a   Heck, Martijn J R ^a   Garcia, John M ^a   Poulsen, Henrik N ^a   Park, Hyundai ^a   Blumenthal, Daniel J ^a   Bowers, John E ^a  

^a University of California   (United States)

Author keywords

Hybrid silicon platform; Optical buffers; Semiconductor optical amplifiers (SOAs)

Indexed keywords

2R REGENERATOR; 40 GB/S; CASCADED AMPLIFIERS; DELAY LINE; EYE DIAGRAMS; FULLY INTEGRATED; GAIN ELEMENTS; HYBRID SILICON; LOW LOSS; NOISE FILTERING; OPTICAL BUFFER; OPTICAL BUFFERS; OPTICAL HYBRIDS; PRELIMINARY EXPERIMENTAL DATA; SATURABLE ABSORBERS; SILICON WAVEGUIDE;

ELECTRIC LOSSES; INTEGRATION; OPTICAL SWITCHES; PHOTONIC DEVICES; REGENERATORS; SEMICONDUCTING SILICON; SEMICONDUCTOR OPTICAL AMPLIFIERS; WAVES;

SEMICONDUCTING SILICON COMPOUNDS;

EID: 79953681611     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.875882     Document Type: Conference Paper

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