Performance of ultracompact copper-capped silicon hybrid plasmonic waveguide-ring resonators at telecom wavelengths

Optics Express

Volumn 20, Issue 14, 2012, Pages 15232-15246

  Zhu, Shiyang ^a   Lo, G Q ^a   Kwong, D L ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF MICROELECTRONICS   (Singapore)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

LIGHT EXTINCTION; OPTICAL RESONATORS; OPTICAL WAVEGUIDES; SILICON; THERMAL CONDUCTIVITY;

BUS WAVEGUIDES; COMPACT SIZE; ELECTRONIC-PHOTONIC INTEGRATED CIRCUIT; EXTINCTION RATIOS; FREE SPECTRAL RANGE; HIGH THERMAL CONDUCTIVITY; PLASMONIC; QUALITY FACTORS; RED-SHIFTED; RESONANCE WAVELENGTHS; RING CONFIGURATION; SEAMLESS INTEGRATION; SILICON-ON-INSULATOR SUBSTRATES; SPECTRAL CHARACTERISTICS; STRUCTURAL PARAMETER; TELECOM WAVELENGTHS; THERMO-OPTICAL COEFFICIENTS; THERMO-OPTICAL DEVICES; THERMO-OPTICAL EFFECTS;

SILICON ON INSULATOR TECHNOLOGY;

EID: 84863768253     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.20.015232     Document Type: Article

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