High-speed receiver technology on the SOI platform

IEEE Journal on Selected Topics in Quantum Electronics

Volumn 19, Issue 2, 2013, Pages

  Feng, Dazeng ^a   Qian, Wei ^a   Liang, Hong ^a   Luff, B Jonathan ^a   Asghari, Mehdi ^a  

^a KOTURA INC   (United States)

Author keywords

Demultiplexing; gratings; integrated circuits; photodetector; silicon on insulator (SOI) technology; wavelength division multiplexing (WDM)

Indexed keywords

CRITICAL COMPONENT; ECHELLE GRATINGS; HIGH-SPEED RECEIVERS; MONOLITHIC INTEGRATION; RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT; SILICON PHOTONICS; SILICON-ON-INSULATOR PLATFORMS; SILICONON-INSULATOR TECHNOLOGY (SOI);

DEMULTIPLEXING; DENSE WAVELENGTH DIVISION MULTIPLEXING; DIFFRACTION GRATINGS; GERMANIUM; INTEGRATED CIRCUITS; MONOLITHIC INTEGRATED CIRCUITS; PHOTODETECTORS; PHOTONIC DEVICES; PHOTONICS; PHOTONS; SILICON ON INSULATOR TECHNOLOGY; WAVELENGTH DIVISION MULTIPLEXING;

TECHNOLOGY;

EID: 84875972670     PISSN: 1077260X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/JSTQE.2012.2213804     Document Type: Article

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