Integrated design for integrated photonics: From the physical to the circuit level and back

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 8781, Issue , 2013, Pages

  Bogaerts, Wim ^a   Li, Yanlu ^a   Pathak, Shibnath ^a   Ruocco, Alfonso ^a   Fiers, Martin ^a   Ribeiro, Antonio ^a   Lambert, Emmanuel ^a   Dumon, Pieter ^a  

^a GHENT UNIVERSITY   (Belgium)

Author keywords

Design; Photonic Integrated Circuits; Simulation

Indexed keywords

DESIGN CHALLENGES; DESIGN FRAMEWORKS; INTEGRATED DESIGNS; INTEGRATED PHOTONICS; PHOTONIC INTEGRATED CIRCUITS; PHYSICAL LEVEL; SILICON PHOTONICS; SIMULATION;

INTEGRATED OPTICS; PHOTONIC DEVICES; PHOTONIC INTEGRATION TECHNOLOGY; PHOTONICS;

DESIGN;

EID: 84880894014     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: 1996756X     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.2017761     Document Type: Conference Paper

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