Photonic crystal slow light devices fabricated by CMOS-compatible process

IEICE Electronics Express

Volumn 10, Issue 10, 2013, Pages

  Baba, Toshihiko ^a   Nguyen, Hong C ^a   Ishikura, Norihiro ^a   Suzuki, Keijiro ^a   Shinkawa, Mizuki ^a   Hayakawa, Ryo ^a,b   Kondo, Keisuke ^a  

^a YOKOHAMA NATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b MITSUBISHI ELECTRIC CORPORATION   (Japan)

Author keywords

Nonlinearity; Photonic crystal; Photonic integration; Silicon photonics; Slow light; Tunable delay

Indexed keywords

CMOS INTEGRATED CIRCUITS; CORRELATORS; FABRICATION; LASER OPTICS; LASER PULSES; LIGHT MODULATORS; PHOTONIC CRYSTALS; PHOTONIC DEVICES; SILICON PHOTONICS; TWO PHOTON PROCESSES;

LIGHT-MATTER INTERACTIONS; MACH ZEHNDER MODULATOR; NONLINEARITY; PHOTONIC CRYSTAL WAVEGUIDE; PHOTONIC INTEGRATIONS; PHOTONIC NANOSTRUCTURES; STATE-OF-THE-ART DEVICES; TUNABLE DELAY;

SLOW LIGHT;

EID: 84878369778     PISSN: 13492543     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1587/elex.10.20132002     Document Type: Review

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