Lossless intensity modulation in integrated photonics

Optics Express

Volumn 20, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 4280-4290

  Sandhu, Sunil ^a   Fan, Shanhui ^a  

^a STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

OPTICAL CONSTANTS; OPTICS;

DYNAMICAL ANALYSIS; INTEGRATED PHOTONICS; INTENSITY MODULATIONS; INTENSITY MODULATORS; LOSSLESS; MODULATION SCHEMES; ON/OFF RATIO; OPTICAL POWER; RING RESONATOR; TIME-AVERAGED;

MODULATION;

EID: 84857248012     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.20.004280     Document Type: Article

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