Integration, processing and performance of low power thermally tunable CMOS-SOI WDM resonators

Optical and Quantum Electronics

Volumn 44, Issue 12-13, 2012, Pages 589-604

  Shubin, Ivan ^a   Li, Guoliang ^a   Zheng, Xuezhe ^a   Luo, Ying ^a   Thacker, Hiren ^a   Yao, Jin ^a   Park, Namseok ^b   Krishnamoorthy, Ashok V ^a   Cunningham, John E ^a  

^a ORACLE CORPORATION   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

3 D integration; CMOS photonics; Mux demux; Ring filters; Ring modulators; Silicon photonics; Thermal tuning

Indexed keywords

3-D INTEGRATION; CMOS PHOTONICS; MUX/DEMUX; RING FILTERS; SILICON PHOTONICS; THERMAL TUNING;

CMOS INTEGRATED CIRCUITS; COMPOSITE MICROMECHANICS; EFFICIENCY; MICROMACHINING; NANOPHOTONICS; PHOTONICS;

PHOTONIC DEVICES;

EID: 84867233896     PISSN: 03068919     EISSN: 1572817X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11082-012-9577-9     Document Type: Article

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