Integrated silicon photonic nanocircuits and technologies for optical interconnect and optical sensing

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 8265, Issue , 2012, Pages

  Dai, Daoxin ^a,b   He, Sailing ^a,b  

^a ZHEJIANG UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b JORCEP   (China)

Author keywords

Arrayed waveguide grating; Microring resonator; Optical interconnect; Plasmonic; Sensing; Silicon; Wire

Indexed keywords

ACTIVE COMPONENTS; CMOS COMPATIBILITY; ELECTRONIC SIGNALS; EVANESCENT FIELDS; HIGH SENSITIVITY; LOW LOSS; MICRORING RESONATOR; MICRORINGS; NANO SCALE; NANOCIRCUITS; OPTICAL CONFINEMENT; OPTICAL INTERCONNECT; OPTICAL SENSING; PHOTONIC INTEGRATED DEVICES; PLASMONIC; PLASMONIC DEVICES; PLASMONIC WAVEGUIDES; POWER SPLITTERS; SENSING; SILICON PHOTONICS; SILICON-ON-INSULATORS; SURFACE PLASMONS; TUNABLE FILTERS; ULTRA-HIGH; ULTRA-SMALL; WAVE-GUIDING;

ARRAYED WAVEGUIDE GRATINGS; ELECTRIC POWER SYSTEM INTERCONNECTION; INTEGRATED OPTOELECTRONICS; LIGHT MODULATORS; NANOTECHNOLOGY; NANOWIRES; OPTICAL INTERCONNECTS; OPTICAL WAVEGUIDES; PLASMONS; SILICON; WAVEGUIDES; WIRE;

WAVEGUIDE FILTERS;

EID: 84858637920     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.910940     Document Type: Conference Paper

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