A grating-coupler-enabled CMOS photonics platform

IEEE Journal on Selected Topics in Quantum Electronics

Volumn 17, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 597-608

  Mekis, Attila ^a   Gloeckner, Steffen ^a   Masini, Gianlorenzo ^a   Narasimha, Adithyaram ^a   Pinguet, Thierry ^a   Sahni, Subal ^a   De Dobbelaere, Peter ^a  

^a CISCO SYSTEMS   (United States)

Author keywords

CMOS integrated circuits; gratings; integrated optoelectronics (O E); optical fiber communication

Indexed keywords

10 GB/ S; CMOS COMPATIBLE; CMOS PHOTONICS; ESSENTIAL ELEMENTS; GRATING COUPLERS; MODULATOR DRIVES; MONOLITHIC INTEGRATION; OPTICAL FIBER COMMUNICATION; SILICON PHOTONICS; TEST INFRASTRUCTURES; WAFER-SCALE;

COUPLED CIRCUITS; INTEGRATION; OPTICAL COMMUNICATION; OPTICAL FIBERS; PHOTONIC DEVICES; PULSE CIRCUITS; SILICON WAFERS;

CMOS INTEGRATED CIRCUITS;

EID: 79953705053     PISSN: 1077260X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/JSTQE.2010.2086049     Document Type: Article

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