Large optical spectral range dispersion engineered silicon-based photonic crystal waveguide modulator

Optics Express

Volumn 20, Issue 11, 2012, Pages 12318-12325

  Hosseini, Amir ^a   Xu, Xiaochuan ^b   Subbaraman, Harish ^a   Lin, Che Yun ^b   Rahimi, Somayeh ^b   Chen, Ray T ^b  

^a OMEGA OPTICS INC   (United States)

^b The University of Texas at Austin   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BANDWIDTH; DISPERSION (WAVES); OPTICAL WAVEGUIDES; SILICA; SLOW LIGHT;

DEFECT MODE; DEVICE OPERATIONS; FIGURE OF MERITS; GROUP INDEX; LARGE-SIGNALS; LIGHT LINES; OPTICAL CARRIERS; OPTICAL SPECTRAL RANGE; PHOTONIC CRYSTAL WAVEGUIDE; SILICON BASED PHOTONICS;

LIGHT MODULATORS;

SILICON;

ARTICLE; CHEMISTRY; EQUIPMENT; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; INSTRUMENTATION; LIGHT; PHOTON; RADIATION SCATTERING; REFRACTOMETRY; SURFACE PLASMON RESONANCE;

EQUIPMENT DESIGN; EQUIPMENT FAILURE ANALYSIS; LIGHT; PHOTONS; REFRACTOMETRY; SCATTERING, RADIATION; SILICON; SURFACE PLASMON RESONANCE;

EID: 84861504712     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.20.012318     Document Type: Article

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