High-speed and broadband electro-optic silicon switch with submilliwatt switching power

2011 Optical Fiber Communication Conference and Exposition and the National Fiber Optic Engineers Conference, OFC/NFOEC 2011

Volumn , Issue , 2011, Pages

  Dong, Po ^a   Liao, Shirong ^a   Liang, Hong ^a   Shafiiha, Roshanak ^a   Feng, Dazeng ^a   Li, Guoliang ^b   Zheng, Xuezhe ^b   Krishnamoorthy, Ashok V ^b   Asghari, Mehdi ^a  

^a KOTURA INC   (United States)

^b ORACLE CORPORATION   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

OPTICAL FIBERS; SILICON;

BROAD BANDWIDTHS; ELECTRO-OPTIC SWITCH; FREE CARRIER INJECTION; HIGH SPEED; SWITCHING POWER; ULTRA-FAST;

OPTICAL FIBER COMMUNICATION;

EID: 79959931622     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1364/ofc.2011.owz4     Document Type: Conference Paper

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