Continuously tunable slow-light device consisting of heater-controlled silicon microring array

Optics Express

Volumn 19, Issue 14, 2011, Pages 13557-13564

  Shinobu, Fumihiro ^a,b   Ishikura, Norihiro ^a,b   Arita, Yoshiki ^a,b   Tamanuki, Takemasa ^a   Baba, Toshihiko ^a,b  

^a YOKOHAMA NATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b JAPAN SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY AGENCY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BANDWIDTH;

BUFFERING CAPACITIES; CENTER WAVELENGTH; CMOS COMPATIBLE; COMPACT DEVICES; FIXED WAVELENGTH; INTEGRATED HEATER; MICRORINGS; NONRETURN TO ZERO SIGNAL; SLOW-LIGHT DEVICES; TUNING RANGES;

SLOW LIGHT;

ARTICLE; ELECTRONICS; EQUIPMENT; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; HEATING; INSTRUMENTATION; OPTICAL INSTRUMENTATION; REFRACTOMETRY;

EQUIPMENT DESIGN; EQUIPMENT FAILURE ANALYSIS; HEATING; LENSES; MINIATURIZATION; REFRACTOMETRY;

EID: 79959865239     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.19.013557     Document Type: Article

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