Broadband on-chip optical non-reciprocity using phase modulators

Optics Express

Volumn 21, Issue 12, 2013, Pages 14500-14511

  Galland, Christophe ^a   Ding, Ran ^a   Harris, Nicholas C ^a   Baehr Jones, Tom ^a   Hochberg, Michael ^a,b,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF DELAWARE   (United States)

^b NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SINGAPORE   (Singapore)

^c INSTITUTE OF MICROELECTRONICS   (Singapore)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CMOS INTEGRATED CIRCUITS; OPTICAL FIBER FABRICATION; OPTICAL FIBERS; PHASE MODULATION; PHOTONIC DEVICES; PHOTONICS; QUANTUM OPTICS;

COMPLEMENTARY METAL OXIDE SEMICONDUCTORS; EXPERIMENTAL RESEARCH; NANOSCALE PHOTONICS; OPTICAL ISOLATORS; PRACTICAL SOLUTIONS; RESONANT STRUCTURES; SILICON PHOTONICS; SINGLE MODE WAVEGUIDES;

TRACKING (POSITION);

COMPUTER AIDED DESIGN; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DEVICE FAILURE ANALYSIS; DEVICES; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; LIGHT; OPTICAL INSTRUMENTATION; RADIATION SCATTERING; REFRACTOMETRY; SURFACE PLASMON RESONANCE; TELECOMMUNICATION; THEORETICAL MODEL; ARTICLE; EQUIPMENT; EQUIPMENT FAILURE;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; COMPUTER-AIDED DESIGN; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; EQUIPMENT FAILURE ANALYSIS; LIGHT; MODELS, THEORETICAL; OPTICAL DEVICES; REFRACTOMETRY; SCATTERING, RADIATION; SURFACE PLASMON RESONANCE; TELECOMMUNICATIONS;

EID: 84879341361     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.21.014500     Document Type: Article

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