Low-power nanophotonic devices based on photonic crystals towards dense photonic network on chip

IET Circuits, Devices and Systems

Volumn 5, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 84-93

  Notomi, M ^a   Shinya, A ^a   Nozaki, K ^a   Tanabe, T ^a   Matsuo, S ^b   Kuramochi, E ^a   Sato, T ^b   Taniyama, H ^a   Sumikura, H ^a  

^a Kashino Diverse Brain Research Laboratory of NTT Communication Science Laboratories   (Japan)

^b NTT CORPORATION   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALL OPTICAL SWITCH; CMOS CHIPS; ELECTRO-OPTIC MODULATORS; HIGH-SPEED OPERATION; LIGHT CONFINEMENTS; LOW POWER; NANO-CAVITIES; NANOPHOTONIC DEVICES; PHOTONIC NETWORK; ULTRA-LOW POWER; ULTRA-SMALL;

ELECTROOPTICAL DEVICES; ENERGY UTILIZATION; NANOPHOTONICS; OPTICAL SWITCHES; PHOTONICS;

PHOTONIC CRYSTALS;

EID: 79959727346     PISSN: 1751858X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1049/iet-cds.2010.0159     Document Type: Article

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