Slow-light-based variable symbol-rate silicon photonics DQPSK receiver

Optics Express

Volumn 20, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 4796-4804

  Suzuki, Keijiro ^a   Nguyen, Hong C ^a,b   Tamanuki, Takemasa ^a   Shinobu, Fumihiro ^a   Saito, Yuji ^a,b   Sakai, Yuya ^a,b   Baba, Toshihiko ^a,b  

^a YOKOHAMA NATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b JAPAN SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY AGENCY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GERMANIUM;

BITRATES; CMOS COMPATIBLE; DELAY LINE; LOW LOSS; MACH-ZEHNDER; MICRORINGS; SI WIRE WAVEGUIDE; SILICON PHOTONICS; SLOW-LIGHT DEVICES; SPOT SIZE CONVERTERS; SYMBOL RATES;

SLOW LIGHT;

EID: 84863116209     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.20.004796     Document Type: Article

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