Electronically tunable silicon photonic delay lines

Optics Express

Volumn 19, Issue 12, 2011, Pages 11780-11785

  Khan, Saeed ^a   Baghban, Mohammad Amin ^b   Fathpour, Sasan ^a,b  

^a University of Central Florida   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CENTRAL FLORIDA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

OPTICAL WAVEGUIDES;

20 GB/S; BIT RATES; ELECTRONICALLY TUNABLE; FIXED WAVELENGTH; FREE-CARRIER PLASMAS; INTEGRABLE DEVICES; OPTICAL TRUE-TIME-DELAY; REFLECTION MODES; SILICON PHOTONICS; SILICON WAVEGUIDE; TUNING RANGES;

WAVES;

EID: 79958217027     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.19.011780     Document Type: Article

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