Dynamics of self-heating in microring resonators

IEEE Photonics Journal

Volumn 4, Issue 5, 2012, Pages 1702-1711

  Arbabi, Amir ^a   Goddard, Lynford L ^a  

^a University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign   (United States)

Author keywords

integrated nanophotonic systems; nanophotonics; Waveguide devices

Indexed keywords

COUNTERPROPAGATING; COUPLED-MODE THEORY; EXPERIMENTAL MEASUREMENTS; INTEGRATED NANOPHOTONIC SYSTEMS; MICRORING RESONATOR; OPTICAL ENERGY; OPTICAL MODELS; PUMP-PROBE METHODS; SECOND-ORDER LINEAR SYSTEM; SELF-HEATING; THEORETICAL MODELS; THERMAL DYNAMICS; THERMAL MODEL; TIME DOMAIN; WAVEGUIDE DEVICE;

DYNAMICS; LINEAR SYSTEMS; NANOPHOTONICS; TIME DOMAIN ANALYSIS;

OPTICAL RESONATORS;

EID: 84866139017     PISSN: 19430655     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/JPHOT.2012.2214205     Document Type: Article

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