50-Gb/s ring-resonator-based silicon modulator

Optics Express

Volumn 21, Issue 10, 2013, Pages 11869-11876

  Baba, Takeshi ^a,c   Akiyama, Suguru ^a,c   Imai, Masahiko ^a,c   Hirayama, Naoki ^b,c   Takahashi, Hiroyuki ^a,c   Noguchi, Yoshiji ^b,c   Horikawa, Tsuyoshi ^b,c   Usuki, Tatsuya ^a,c  

^a PHOTONICS ELECTRONICS TECHNOLOGY RESEARCH ASSOCIATION PETRA   (Japan)

^b NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF ADVANCED INDUSTRIAL SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY AIST   (Japan)

^c Institute for Photonics Electronics Convergence System Technology PECST   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

OPTICAL CONSTANTS; OPTICS;

DRIVING VOLTAGES; OPERATION MODE; OPTICAL INSERTION LOSS; PIN DIODE; RING RESONATOR; SILICON MODULATORS;

RESONATORS;

SILICON;

CHEMISTRY; DEVICE FAILURE ANALYSIS; DEVICES; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; SEMICONDUCTOR; SIGNAL PROCESSING; SURFACE PLASMON RESONANCE; TELECOMMUNICATION; TRANSDUCER; ARTICLE; EQUIPMENT; EQUIPMENT FAILURE;

EQUIPMENT DESIGN; EQUIPMENT FAILURE ANALYSIS; SEMICONDUCTORS; SIGNAL PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; SILICON; SURFACE PLASMON RESONANCE; TELECOMMUNICATIONS; TRANSDUCERS;

EID: 84878559073     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.21.011869     Document Type: Article

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