Cascaded modulator architecture for WDM applications

Optics Express

Volumn 20, Issue 25, 2012, Pages 27420-27428

  Debnath, Kapil ^a   O'Faolain, Liam ^a,d   Gardes, Frederic Y ^b   Steffan, Andreas G ^c   Reed, Graham T ^b   Krauss, Thomas F ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ST ANDREWS   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHAMPTON   (United Kingdom)

^c U2T PHOTONICS AG   (Germany)

^d STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BUS WAVEGUIDES; CASCADED MODULATORS; CRYSTAL MODULATORS; DEVICE ARCHITECTURES; DEVICE GEOMETRIES; HIGH SCALABILITIES; INTEGRATION DENSITY; LOW INSERTION LOSS; MULTICHANNEL OPERATION; NOVEL ARCHITECTURE; ON CHIPS; SWITCHING ENERGY; WDM SYSTEMS;

ENERGY UTILIZATION; SCALABILITY;

MODULATORS;

SILICON DERIVATIVE; SILICON NITRIDE;

ARTICLE; CHEMISTRY; EQUIPMENT; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; FIBER OPTICS; LASER; LIGHT; METHODOLOGY; MICROTECHNOLOGY; NANOTECHNOLOGY; OPTICAL INSTRUMENTATION; SCANNING ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; TELECOMMUNICATION;

EQUIPMENT DESIGN; FIBER OPTIC TECHNOLOGY; LASERS; LIGHT; MICROSCOPY, ELECTRON, SCANNING; MICROTECHNOLOGY; NANOTECHNOLOGY; OPTICAL DEVICES; SILICON COMPOUNDS; TELECOMMUNICATIONS;

EID: 84870607900     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.20.027420     Document Type: Article

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