Adiabatic microring modulators

Optics Express

Volumn 20, Issue 28, 2012, Pages 29223-29236

  Biberman, Aleksandr ^a   Timurdogan, Erman ^a   Zortman, William A ^b   Trotter, Douglas C ^b   Watts, Michael R ^a  

^a MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^b SANDIA NATIONAL LABORATORIES   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

LIGHT MODULATORS; LITHIUM; NIOBIUM COMPOUNDS;

ADIABATIC DESIGNS; ADIABATIC TRANSITIONS; COMPARATIVE ANALYSIS; CONTACT REGIONS; COUPLING REGION; DATA RATES; ELECTRICAL CONTACTS; FREE SPECTRAL RANGE; HIGHER-ORDER MODES; MACH ZEHNDER MODULATOR; MICRODISKS; MICRORING MODULATOR; MULTIMODES; P-N JUNCTION; SILICON PHOTONICS; SINGLE MODE; SPATIAL MODES;

SILICON;

EID: 84872029358     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.20.029223     Document Type: Article

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