Silicon high-order coupled-microring-based electro-optical switches for on-chip optical interconnects

IEEE Photonics Technology Letters

Volumn 24, Issue 10, 2012, Pages 821-823

  Luo, Xianshu ^a   Song, Junfeng ^a,b   Feng, Shaoqi ^c   Poon, Andrew W ^c   Liow, Tsung Yang ^a   Yu, Mingbin ^a   Lo, Guo Qiang ^a   Kwong, Dim Lee ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF MICROELECTRONICS   (Singapore)

^b JILIN UNIVERSITY   (China)

^c HONG KONG UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Hong Kong)

Author keywords

Coupled resonators; electrooptic devices; integrated optoelectronics; ring resonator; silicon on insulator technology

Indexed keywords

COMPLEMENTARY METAL OXIDE SEMICONDUCTORS; COUPLED RESONATOR; DC POWER CONSUMPTION; DC VOLTAGE; DRIVING SIGNAL; ELECTRO-OPTICAL SWITCHES; ELECTROOPTIC DEVICES; EXTINCTION RATIOS; FABRICATION TECHNOLOGIES; HIGH-ORDER; MICRORINGS; ON-CHIP OPTICAL INTERCONNECTS; ON/OFF RATIO; PASS BANDS; PIN DIODE; PSEUDO-RANDOM BINARY SEQUENCES; RING RESONATOR; SIGNAL TRANSMISSION; SILICON ON INSULATOR; SILICONON-INSULATOR TECHNOLOGY (SOI); SWITCHING CAPABILITY; SWITCHING TIME; TRANSMISSION SPECTRUMS;

BINARY SEQUENCES; DROPS; INTEGRATED OPTOELECTRONICS; OPTICAL INTERCONNECTS; OPTICAL RESONATORS; OPTICAL SWITCHES;

DC POWER TRANSMISSION;

EID: 84859895890     PISSN: 10411135     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/LPT.2012.2188829     Document Type: Article

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