Wide tuning of silicon-on-insulator ring resonators with a liquid crystal cladding

Optics Letters

Volumn 36, Issue 19, 2011, Pages 3876-3878

  De Cort, Wout ^a   Beeckman, Jeroen ^a   Claes, Tom ^a   Neyts, Kristiaan ^a   Baets, Roel ^a  

^a GHENT UNIVERSITY   (Belgium)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLADDING LAYER; ELECTRICAL TUNING; LIQUID CRYSTAL CLADDING; LOW POWER; MODE SOLVERS; RING RESONATOR; SILICON ON INSULATOR; TE MODE; TM MODES; TUNING RANGES; WIDE TUNING;

LASERS; LIQUIDS; OPTICAL COMMUNICATION; OPTICAL RESONATORS; SILICON DETECTORS; TUNING;

NEMATIC LIQUID CRYSTALS;

EID: 80053584388     PISSN: 01469592     EISSN: 15394794     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OL.36.003876     Document Type: Article

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