A low-power high-speed InP microdisk modulator heterogeneously integrated on a SOI waveguide

Optics Express

Volumn 20, Issue 9, 2012, Pages 9363-9370

  Hofrichter, Jens ^a   Raz, Oded ^b   La Porta, Antonio ^a   Morf, Thomas ^a   Mechet, Pauline ^c   Morthier, Geert ^c   De Vries, Tjibbe ^b   Dorren, Harm J S ^b   Offrein, Bert J ^a  

^a IBM RESEARCH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^b EINDHOVEN UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Netherlands)

^c GHENT UNIVERSITY   (Belgium)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

INDIUM PHOSPHIDE; INTEGRATION; WAVEGUIDES;

COINTEGRATION; DYNAMIC OPERATIONS; EXTINCTION RATIOS; HIGH-SPEED; INP; INTEGRATED MODULATORS; LOW POWER; MICRODISKS; MODULATION CHARACTERISTICS; PATTERN LENGTH; POWER PENALTY; SILICON-ON-INSULATORS; SOI WAVEGUIDES; VOLTAGE OPERATIONS; WAVELENGTH CONVERTER;

MODULATORS;

INDIUM; INDIUM PHOSPHIDE; PHOSPHINE DERIVATIVE;

ARTICLE; CHEMISTRY; COMPUTER AIDED DESIGN; EQUIPMENT; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; INSTRUMENTATION; REFRACTOMETRY; SIGNAL PROCESSING; SURFACE PLASMON RESONANCE; SYSTEM ANALYSIS;

COMPUTER-AIDED DESIGN; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; EQUIPMENT FAILURE ANALYSIS; INDIUM; PHOSPHINES; REFRACTOMETRY; SIGNAL PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; SURFACE PLASMON RESONANCE; SYSTEMS INTEGRATION;

EID: 84861128229     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.20.009363     Document Type: Article

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