High-efficiency 25Gb/s CMOS ring modulator with integrated thermal tuning

IEEE International Conference on Group IV Photonics GFP

Volumn , Issue , 2011, Pages 8-10

  Li, Guoliang ^a   Zheng, Xuezhe ^a   Yao, Jin ^a   Thacker, Hiren ^a   Shubin, Ivan ^a   Luo, Ying ^a   Raj, Kannan ^a   Cunningham, John E ^a   Krishnamoorthy, Ashok V ^a  

^a ORACLE CORPORATION   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CIRCUIT MODELING; CMOS PROCESSS; EXTINCTION RATIOS; THERMAL TUNING;

CMOS INTEGRATED CIRCUITS; PHOTONICS;

TUNING;

EID: 81355136245     PISSN: 19492081     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/GROUP4.2011.6053698     Document Type: Conference Paper

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