Continuously tunable delay line based on SOI tapered Bragg gratings

Optics Express

Volumn 20, Issue 10, 2012, Pages 11241-11246

  Giuntoni, Ivano ^a   Stolarek, David ^b   Kroushkov, Dimitar I ^a   Bruns, Jürgen ^a   Zimmermann, Lars ^a,b   Tillack, Bernd ^a,b   Petermann, Klaus ^a  

^a TECHNISCHE UNIVERSITÄT BERLIN   (Germany)

^b IHP   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

SILICON ON INSULATOR TECHNOLOGY;

80 GBIT/S; FILTER CONFIGURATION; RIB WAVEGUIDES; SILICON-ON- INSULATORS (SOI); THERMO-OPTICAL EFFECTS; TUNABILITIES; TUNING COEFFICIENT; TUNING RANGES;

BRAGG GRATINGS;

SILICON;

ARTICLE; CHEMISTRY; CRYSTALLIZATION; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; FILTRATION; METHODOLOGY; OPTICAL COHERENCE TOMOGRAPHY; OPTICS; PHOTON; SIGNAL PROCESSING; TEMPERATURE; ULTRAVIOLET RADIATION;

CRYSTALLIZATION; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; FILTRATION; OPTICS AND PHOTONICS; PHOTONS; SIGNAL PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; SILICON; TEMPERATURE; TOMOGRAPHY, OPTICAL COHERENCE; ULTRAVIOLET RAYS;

EID: 84861137563     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.20.011241     Document Type: Article

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